From October 6 to 9, 2025, the Training Base Weeze—Europe’s largest training center—hosted the Resilient 6G Network Challenge 2025, a joint demonstration between Germany and Japan dedicated to the development of resilient 6G communication technologies for the teleoperation of robots and drones.
The challenge is part of the collaboration between the two German research hubs 6G-life and 6GEM (involving in particular TU Dortmund and the Deutsches Rettungsrobotik Zentrum) and Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT).
During the competition, the teams tackled two operational missions, putting the latest results of their research into practice.
The 6G-life team set up a 5G mobile campus network with a 3-sector base station mounted on a 6-meter pole, a CampusGenius core, and a Starlink satellite connection. This infrastructure was integrated with the 6GEM project’s Open-RAN mobile network, while 6G-life, 6GEM, and NICT extended coverage through 6G mobile base stations, mesh networks, and advanced satellite solutions.
All teams managed mobile robotic platforms and drones through these technologies, demonstrating the ability of 6G networks to ensure reliability, low latency, and service continuity, even in complex and dynamic scenarios.
The Resilient 6G Network Challenge 2025 represents a significant step towards the integration of next-generation networks for critical, robotic, and emergency applications.
