TU Dresden and the Technical University of Munich have partnered to establish the 6G-life research hub—an initiative at the forefront of developing next-generation 6G communication networks: 6g-life.de

The project emphasizes human-machine collaboration to unlock new levels of connectivity, intelligence, and interaction.

Within this framework, MIRMI contributes to multiple work packages focused on leveraging 6G technologies in industry and robotics. Key research areas include:

• Development of fault-tolerant, adaptive control architectures for safety-critical systems
• Designing lighter, more affordable, and energy-efficient robotic platforms through computational offloading
• Creating 6G-enabled control algorithms for healthcare and industrial use cases
• Advancing remote and AI-driven robot planning and learning
• Building flexible manufacturing systems via centralized high-level planning
• Developing a 5G/6G-powered immersive, semi-autonomous tele-surgery platform
• Ensuring fast, reliable transmission of high-dimensional visual, force, and tactile data
• Innovating modular, compliant endo-drive designs compatible with existing surgical tools

This research lays the groundwork for future-proof, intelligent, and network-integrated robotic systems.

In the pictures above: The proposed tele-surgical platform at MIRMI (left), in operation during a demonstration (right). The surgeon's console can be located at some distance from the patient to study performance over different communication networks.

Team lead:
Dr. Hamid Sadeghian

Members:
Dr. Valentin Le Mesle, Dr. Fan Wu, Dr. Zewen Yang, Fabian Jacob,  Umut Kenanoglu, Zheng Shen, Yu Li

Find out more about current research on 6G here.

This article gives you an insight into the 6G Lab at the Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence.

You can also read information on 6G-life from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space here.