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Building the touch interface for digital and robotic worlds

Haply is a Canadian engineering company designing force-feedback haptic devices that help people feel, control, and interact with digital and robotic environments.

Haply Inverse3 force-feedback haptic device

Our journey

A more human way to interact with complex systems

Haply began with a simple belief: the way people interact with digital and robotic systems should feel more natural, physical, and human. What started as deep technical work in force-feedback haptics has grown into a Canadian engineering company shaped by researchers, engineers, designers, builders, and curious problem-solvers.

Our team is united by a shared interest in making complex systems easier to understand, control, and experience through touch. Today, Haply works with people across robotics, simulation, research, education, healthcare, industrial automation, and 3D design. Some are exploring haptics for the first time. Others are building advanced systems where precision, physical interaction, and trust matter. Across those use cases, our role is the same: to help people feel more connected to the digital and robotic tools they use.

Our culture is built around curiosity, craft, humility, and practical invention. We value thoughtful engineering, close collaboration, and the belief that powerful technology should feel approachable, responsive, and useful from the first interaction.

The excitement for what comes next drives our innovation. We are always working to make touch more accessible, so more people can understand, create, train, and control complex systems in ways that feel intuitive and human.

THE HAPLY TEAM — MONTRÉAL, QC

Visitors trying the MinVerse at Haply's CES booth, beside two CES Innovation Award trophies
FIG. 02-A — MINVERSE DEMOS AT THE HAPLY BOOTH / CES, LAS VEGAS

What we build

Haptic hardware, robotics software, and workflows for physical AI interaction

Haply brings together force-feedback haptic devices, robotics workflow tools, and application support so teams can feel, guide, train, and repeat interactions across digital and robotic environments.

01 Haptic hardware

Precision force-feedback devices that let users feel and control digital, simulated, and robotic systems with physical clarity.

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02 Robotics workflow tools

HARP and related tools that help teams control robots, demonstrate tasks, capture motion, and support repeatable automation workflows.

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03 Applied workflows

Support for simulation, training, research, automation, medical education, and 3D design, so the same product family can adapt across many use cases.

Use cases

Why it matters

More work is moving into digital, simulated, and robotic environments

As more work moves into digital, simulated, and robotic environments, professionals need more than visual feedback.

Haply brings physical touch into these workflows, helping users understand, control, and manipulate complex systems with greater precision and confidence. Force feedback is what closes the gap between operator intent and real-world outcome.

Built for professional workflows

Where Haply is used

Haply devices are used across a wide range of professional and technical applications.

Founders

Founded in Montréal, built by engineers

Haply was founded by three engineers who believed technology should respond naturally to human touch and movement.

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Colin Gallacher

President & Co-Founder

NSF lead with Stanford and recipient of UBC Canada’s Outstanding Achievement Award. Lifelong entrepreneur and mediocre golfer.

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Steve Ding

Co-Operations Lead & Co-Founder

Embedded systems researcher and AI specialist, with work in data compression for cardiography. Fixer of all things and electronics hoarder.

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Felix Desourdy

Head of Design & Co-Founder

Advanced additive manufacturing and product design innovation. A machinist since the age of five.

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Our network

Companies we've worked with

Haply's technology spans robotics, medical simulation, industrial automation, 3D design, and physical AI across a network of organizations we've collaborated with, built with, and been recognized by.

Recognition

  • CES 2026 Innovation Honoree × 2
  • CES 2025 Best of Innovation — MinVerse
  • CES 2025 XR Innovation Honoree
  • Recognized by NVIDIA + AWS as a leading robotics company
  • Yanko Design Best of CES 2025

Put touch in your workflow.

Talk to our team about bringing force feedback into your robotics, simulation, training, or design workflow.

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