Haptics Club

Jake Rubin is the Founder & CEO at HaptX. HaptX invents and builds wearable technology that simulates touch with unprecedented realism, enabling natural haptic interaction in virtual reality and robotics. The multidisciplinary HaptX team includes mechanical, software, electrical, and biomedical engineers and human-machine interaction experts. We’re pioneering a new approach to haptics to crack...

Femke van Beek works as a postdoc with Irene Kuling, in the Dynamics and Control Group of the Department of Mechnical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her current project is part of the 4TU Soft Robots Program, in which soft robots are developed by taking inspiration from nature, like octopus arms and elephant trunks. She uses these soft robots for creating haptic feedback...

David Resnick is involved with The Walt Disney Company as a Senior Product Design Manager, focusing on Interactive & Gaming for Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+. He is a multisensory creator, involved in developing and creating immersive, interactive and engaging products for a broad audience across Disney’s streaming platforms. David is also a Mentor, Speaker, and Workshop Leader specializing in Human-Co...

Tune in as we interview David Parisi, Dibner Chair at NYU Tandon, the Editor at ROMchip Journal, and author of renowned haptics book " Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing ." In this episode we talk about the current state of haptics in academia, and David's latest theory - technohaptic real. As one of the most outspoken experts in the indust...

Guess who's back? Simon Frübis returns, this time to discuss his work as an XR interaction designer at Doublepoint (formerly known as Port 6). Doublepoint is recognized for its WowMouse app, which is now compatible with Google Pixel Watch 2. Simon has over six years of expertise in interaction design, digital marketing, and entrepreneurship, coupled with more than three years of experience as...

Shan-Yuan Teng 鄧善元, a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Chicago under Prof. Pedro Lopes, focuses on developing the next generation of haptic interfaces for enhanced mobility and availability, similar to mobile phones and wearables. With 14 papers published in top HCI conferences like ACM CHI & UIST, including two Best Paper Awards and four Honorable Mentions, Shan-Yuan&...

\Tune in as we interview Philipp Sachs, COO of Xeeltech. XeelTech is a company that focuses on the development of haptic and adaptive damping technologies. The company offers smart rotary haptic actuators with programmable feedback, designed to enhance user interaction with products, and adaptive damping systems. This interview with Philipp Sachs will provide insights into XeelTech's vision fo...

Join Haptics Club for a live session featuring Jacob Segil, CEO of Afference. Afference specializes in the development of The Phantom, a haptic glove designed to deliver feedback with precise finger-level detail through direct interaction with the nervous system. Founded by neural engineering specialists, the company draws upon a wealth of research in neural interfaces to enhance digital interacti...

Manuel has developed haptic technologies for the medical, automotive, gaming, XR, and mobility industries. His work has led him to be named as an inventor in over 250 US granted and pending patents in the areas of sensing, actuation, and control. Manu works at Innovobot Labs as Chief Scientist, responsible for developing their Human Machine Interface (HMI) Lab, and was recently announced as the ne...

Haptics Club is joined live with Craig Shultz and Joe Mullenbach of Fluid Reality, which recently showed its electroosmotic device that uses an electric field to create feedback. Craig is co-founder and CTO of Fluid Reality, a spinout commercializing his post doctoral work at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in the Future Interfaces Group. He's the invento...

Dr. Ivan Poupyrev is an award-winning technology leader, scientist and designer working at the cutting edge of interactive technologies. Ivan was the Director of Engineering and Technical Projects Lead at the Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) division where he focused on developing interaction technologies and products for future digital lifestyle. Prior to Google he was Principal R...

Denny Unger serves as both the CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Cloudhead Games, a company established in 2012. Cloudhead Games has made its mark in the virtual reality (VR) industry by releasing four notable VR titles, including Pistol Whip, Valve Aperture Hand Labs, Call of the Starseed, and Heart of the Emberstone. Their innovative approach to VR has led to the adoption of two widely recognize...

Aadeel is the CEO and founder of the bionics company PSYONIC. PSYONIC is pioneering bionic prosthetics and making them accessible to more people than ever before as the “Finally, a bionic hand that can actually feel.” Aadeel was named one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 and was featured in Newsweek’s “America's 50 Greatest Disruptors: Visionaries Who Are Changing the World. L...

Season finale before the summer stop! We discuss the latest haptics innovation happened in the market, and why we believe they are worth to discuss. Have a good listen!

Peter A. Botticelli joined SynTouch as Director of Customer Solutions with a strong background in custom robotics and control systems. Peter studied electrical engineering at Worchester Polytechnic Institute and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He worked in development as a robotics engineer at Barrett Technology Inc. and UniFirst Corporation. At SynTouch, Peter develops state-of-the art m...

Hong Z. Tan is a renowned haptics scientist at Google, known for her research on perception-based haptic interfaces. With a background in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and MIT, respectively, Hong has also had extensive industry experience, including a stint at Microsoft Research Asia. She is a Fellow of IEEE for her contributions to wearable h...

We had this sparkling episode about VR gloves and haptics in VR with Contact CI co-founder Craig Douglass. Contact CI is developing a different type of force feedback based on bio-inspired control methods of resistive force feedback. Great discussion about Haptics and VR in general worth a listen!

In this episode we sit down with Danny Grant, technology visionary who has a proven record of innovation and a passion for building a better future and for the past 20 years have led product innovation at Immersion Corp. Now a funding partner at Innovobot Resonance Ventures. We talk about the innovation process for the DualSense haptics, the entrepreneurship process finally bringing it to the mark...

The Xprize competition is one of the institution pushing the boundaries of human knowledge through technology breakthrough. The ANA-AVATAR Xprize competition looked to share a glimpse of what the future of telerobotic and telepresence could be. We share this episode with Christian Lenz and Max Schwarz form the Nimbro team of Bonn University winner of the ANA-AVATAR Xprize. It is a great conversati...

Pedro is Assistant Professor at University of Chicago and Lead of the Human Computer Integration Lab in the Department of Computer Science.  He’s published over 30+ papers at ACM CHI & UIST. His work has been captured by MIT Technology Review, Discovery Channel, Wired, and New York Times.  Learn more at Plopes.org .

Ben is the reference in the XR world leading the Road to VR since 2012. He has a unique insight of the value of haptics for XR experiences, and how to build a great haptics peripherals and interfaces.  Road to VR website 5 most interesting haptics technologies in the last five years

We sit down in this episode with Tom Carter, co-founder, former CTO, and now CEO of Ultraleap.  Ultraleap raised their series D in 2021 of $82 millions for their hand tracking, and mid-air haptic technology.  We will chat around the entrepreneurial and technological story of Ultraleap, from Ultrahaptics first, the Leap Motion acquisition later and the fusion of the two companies projecti...

Our classic CES special sharing and discussing haptics news (the one we were able to catch in the maelstrom). A lot of VR gloves, in many ways or forms. A lot of XR. Haptics trackpad, controllers, and in car haptics. Better consumed as video. 

In this episode we will touch all the future of haptics prediction of our speakers in the past 33 episodes with the help of Dave Parisi, the reference for haptics media studies.   The result are surprising and unexpected.  They paint a grounded and clear view of the next five years for the haptics market.   Best consumed as a video!

Oliver does haptics since he was a teenager, and it shows it. He is now assistant professor of human computer interaction at Waterloo University.  He specializes in HX, a short form of Haptics Experience. We will talk about design, design tools, multisensory experiences and lifelong learnings in this great episode.  For more information, visit Oliver Schneider’s profile on the University...