BMBF-Minister Özdemir visits 6GEM booth on HMI 2025

6GEM was honored to welcome German Federal Minister of Education and Research (BMBF), Cem Özdemir, who visited the project's demonstration at the BMBF booth on the first day of the Hannover Industry Fair. On the second day, we had the pleasure of demonstrating our technology to BMBF State Secretary Claudia Müller.

The 6GEM demonstration features a virtualized air hockey game, showcasing teleoperation capabilities via virtual reality (VR), allowing remote control of physical robot arms. This gamification approach highlights the importance of ultra-low-latency 6G communication technologies necessary for immersive, real-time teleoperation in industrial scenarios.

6GEM focuses on strengthening technological sovereignty and competitiveness in future wireless communication systems. With this demonstration, 6GEM emphasizes how low-latency communication enables remote experts to perform complex tasks that robots alone cannot handle autonomously. This is especially critical in hazardous environments, as robots can perform dangerous tasks without exposing humans to risk. Additionally, teleoperation significantly reduces response times, allowing experts to intervene immediately without needing to travel.

The demonstrated research solutions within 6GEM include predictive adaptation of video codecs via RISE, AI-based proactive resource allocation with SAMUS, mmWave coverage optimization using passive HELIOS reflectors, and high-load stress testing enabled by STING. These innovations have received scientific recognition (by several best paper awards) and are partially planned be further developed through a start-up project supported by the 6GEMcubator.

6GEM is presented from March 31 to April 4, 2025, with 3 booths on the Hannover Industry fair 2025.  CNI is looking forward to meet you on the booth of the Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in hall 2. In addition, 6GEM is respresented in hall 14 on the 6G platform booth (with most recent work of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces from Ruhr-University Bochum, DKS) as well as on the booth of the Startup.Connect programm where innovative test procedures for 6G wireless systems based on AR are presented by the 6GEMcubator resp. RWTH Aachen, DSP. 

With its presentation at the Hannover Industry fair 6GEM underlines its commitment to actively drive forward 6G innovations for the future industrial metaverse and wirelessly connected industries.