Networked collaborative robots enabled by 6G
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Contributors
Abstract
As robotics continues to expand into industry, healthcare, and home environments, interconnectivity between robots is becoming essential for creating efficient, collaborative systems. Unlike traditional standalone setups, future robots will function as part of dynamic, interconnected networks, exchanging high-fidelity data that includes real-time tactile and sensory feedback—an exchange critical for enabling telepresence and teleoperation in complex applications such as remote healthcare and industrial collaboration. While 5G has already enabled significant strides in low-latency, high-bandwidth communication, the upcoming 6G networks promise even greater potential, offering improved speed, bandwidth, and latency reduction. These advances will support seamless integration of multi-modal sensory data and Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC), facilitating richer, more coordinated interactions between robots. By enhancing data rates and minimizing delays, 6G is poised to make the vision of interconnected, intelligent, and responsive robotic systems a reality, allowing robots to collaborate with unprecedented precision and responsiveness.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 6G-life |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Pages | 263-290 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 978-0-443-27410-7 |
| ISBN (print) | 978-0-443-27411-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2026 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0002-8588-9755/work/211721761 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0003-3849-3798/work/211721880 |
| ORCID | /0000-0001-7008-1537/work/211721882 |
| ORCID | /0000-0003-2986-5692/work/211722466 |
| ORCID | /0009-0005-1367-851X/work/211722572 |
| ORCID | /0009-0001-9849-2300/work/211722642 |
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Keywords
- Low-latency communication, Networked robots, Sensing and actuation