About
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.
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
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.
Precision force-feedback devices that let users feel and control digital, simulated, and robotic systems with physical clarity.
Inverse3HARP and related tools that help teams control robots, demonstrate tasks, capture motion, and support repeatable automation workflows.
HARPSupport for simulation, training, research, automation, medical education, and 3D design, so the same product family can adapt across many use cases.
Use casesWhy 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.
Intuitive force-feedback control for remote and collaborative robots.
Realistic touch for surgical training and procedural rehearsal.
Muscle memory for high-stakes skills, built through repeatable physical practice.
Sculpt and model with a sense of material, not just a cursor.
A precise, programmable haptics platform for HCI and robotics labs.
One product family, adapted across professional and technical workflows.
Founders
Founded in Montréal, built by engineers
Haply was founded by three engineers who believed technology should respond naturally to human touch and movement.
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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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.
- Unity
- Amazon
- Pfizer
- NVIDIA
- Kinova
- Mecademic
- BlackBerry QNX
- KUKA
- MedAcuity
- PickNik Robotics
- FundamentalVR
- GE Aerospace
- Boston Scientific
- Epic Games
- Stäubli
- Mila
- National Research Council Canada
- Chevron
- Wosler
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.