6g Germany
AT Mwc 2026
MWC Barcelona:
From 6G Research to Real-World Impact
At MWC Barcelona, the German 6G Platform brought together the four Technology Transfer Hubs xG-RIC, 6G-life, 6GEM+ and Open6GHub+, alongside pioneering startups, to showcase how cutting-edge 6G research is being translated into practical applications.
Through live demonstrations and use cases spanning healthcare, mobility, industry and intelligent connectivity, visitors gained first-hand insights into the potential of next-generation communication technologies to enable new services, increase efficiency and drive digital transformation.
A special highlight was the visit of Federal Minister Karsten Wildberger, who explored the latest innovations and discussed their significance for Germany’s digital future.
The joint presence highlighted the strength of Germany’s 6G innovation ecosystem: one platform, four transfer hubs and a growing startup community working together to accelerate technology transfer and turn research excellence into real-world impact.
6g germany Booth – 6F10 . Hall 6
Visitors explored our joint ecosystem, experienced live research demonstrators, and joined guided booth tours to discover how Germany is shaping the next generation of connectivity.
0 Welcome Counter and Bar
The bar is the perfect place to grab a drink and connect with other visitors. This is also the meeting point where our guided booth tours start.
1 Research Hub: 6G-life
MiniSphere
The MiniSphere from 6G-life demonstrates innovative motion calculation for robots, enabling compact, efficient collaboration in minimal space. It reduces development and programming time, showcasing the future of robotics with optimized performance for dense, space-saving environments.
2 Research Hub: 6GEM+
Value-oriented 6G communication systems for the connected digital industry
The 6GEM+ Hub showcases innovative approaches leveraging the potential of 6G for the connected digital industry. XR-based teleoperation demonstrates ultra-low latency and high-reliability communication, enabling real-time immersive remote control of industrial and mobility systems through the 6GEM+ infrastructure. Critical Aware Transmission highlights collaborative robotic arms performing industrial tasks, illustrating how safe, reliable, and efficient automation can be maintained even under degraded wireless channel conditions. Proactive, AI-driven 6G Scheduling for Real-Time Humanoid Robot Control shows how humanoid robots benefit from offloading complex computations to edge cloud resources, supported by proactive resource management toward an Open 6G RAN for scalable real-time communications.
ITAR (RWTH Aachen, DSP)
This demo shows a XR-based teleoperation, which requires ultra-low latency and high reliability. ITAR demonstrates real-time immersive control of industrial and mobility systems through 6GEM+ infrastructure, combining edge computing, live video streaming, and digital twins for enhanced remote operation.
Critical Aware Transmission (Ruhr Universität Bochum RUB, DKS)
This demo showcases two robotic arms performing a collaborative task, illustrating concepts for 6G-enabled industrial automation. It demonstrates how criticality-aware, goal-oriented communication can maintain safe, reliable, and efficient operation even under degraded wireless channel conditions.
Proactive, AI-driven 6G Scheduling for Real-Time Humanoid Robot Control (TU Dortmund, CNI)
This demo shows how humanoid robots can benefit from offloading complex computational tasks to edge cloud resources for efficient operation. With Proactive, AI-driven 6G Scheduling for Real-Time Humanoid Robot Control, 6GEM+ showcases proactive resource management toward an Open 6G RAN, enabling scalable real-time communications.
3 Research Hub: Open6GHub+
Holistic Communication & 3D Networking in 6G
This demonstrator combines AI‑native, spatially intelligent network architectures with integrated end‑to‑end communication to enable adaptive connectivity, sensing, and intelligence across terrestrial, aerial, and space layers.
4 Research Hub: xG-RIC
Sub-THz ICAS Patient Monitoring
An interactive demonstrator presents contactless patient monitoring using 6G. A sub-THz integrated communication and sensing system transmits about 5 Gbit/s of data while simultaneously measuring the respiration of a realistically simulated patient in a hospital scenario.
5 Startup Area
Resilient 6G RAN components
Within the topic island “Resilient 6G RAN components,” six German deep tech startups present their solutions for the base station of the future. The joint demonstration covers all areas from backhauling to the base station itself and the air interface and provides new concepts for successful evaluation.
Involved Startups: IICT, Linque, NovoFlect, Open Radio Systems, QuSine, unparallabs
RoboFlowers
The demo shows the interaction of real-time reactive motion planning in multi-robot systems and AI-based image, person and context recognition. The control network is radio-based and enables flexible, manufacturerindependent operation. Fields of application include urban areas, catering and industrial sectors.
Involved Startups: Campus Genius, Evasive
The Connected Industry
A live technology demo where four European startups combine their innovations to enable secure, high-performance private industrial networks. It demonstrates how modular end-to-end connectivity for critical warehouse environments can be built with sovereign technologies made in Europe.
Involved Startups: Airpuls, Campus Genius, Massive Beams, Pangolin
6 Industry Meeting Area
At our booth, the Industry Meeting Area is the ideal place for in-depth conversations and small presentations. Use this space to connect with partners, customers, or peers in a focused setting.
Startups at the Booth
12 startups showcased their work at the 6G Germany booth at MWC Barcelona 2026. Explore their profiles below to learn more about their work.
Airpuls delivers customized 5G solutions for private networks based on research results from Fraunhofer HHI. Customers receive flexible infrastructures for industry and education without dependence on large operators.
Campus Genius plans and operates private 5G campus networks with virtualized core software and a management platform. The solutions offer low latency and seamless integration into customer-specific applications.
Comsentry builds compact, modular, outdoor-ready FPGA-powered SDR platforms with integrated RF frontends—so you can prototype and deploy 6G, radar, and sensing solutions faster.
Evasive Robotics develops software for collision-free coordination of many industrial robots in confined spaces. Demonstrators such as the Robosphere bring cooperative robotics to life for manufacturing.
IICT delivers hands-on learning and advanced experimentation platforms to accelerate IoT, 5G/6G, and embedded AI adoption for skills development, testing, and R&D.
Linque is building AI and cloud infrastructure using photonics for information processing. This enables energy-efficient and faster compute deployment in HPC, data centers and edge devices, particularly for large-scale AI models.
Massive Beams offers a development platform for O-RAN-compatible radio units in 5G and 6G networks. It enables manufacturers to conduct faster tests and allows standardized radio technologies to enter the open market.
Novo Flect creates modular Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces that shape radio propagation, enabling resilient and energy-efficient wireless connectivity for 5G, 6G, and smart radio environments.
Open Radio Systems builds open-source radios designed for 6G and beyond, offering a foundation for innovation in next-generation communication technologies.
Pangolin creates sustainable value with private wireless networks by ensuring high performance and availability for critical applications, even under changing environmental and operational conditions.
QuSine provides ultra-stable timing and frequency references for next-generation telecom networks, leveraging photonic technology to generate ultra-low-noise RF and microwave signals.
Unparallabs develops ready-to-run software-defined instruments that enable quick and easy ISAC research, development, and deployment for network operators, manufacturers, and researchers.
