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Insights for teams building with touch.
Haptics, robotics, 3D design, and simulation — product news, event recaps, and application stories.
Why Touch Is Essential to the Future of Physical AI
Co-founder Colin Gallacher on how force-feedback haptics gives humans intuitive control of robotic systems — and why motion is the language we use to teach robots physical tasks.
Physical AI
Addressing the Nay-Sayers: Why MinVerse is the Future of Haptics
Some say haptics is still a novelty and devices like MinVerse won't find a place in professional workflows. We set the record straight: with native Blender and RoboDK integrations, a modular design, and a thriving haptics community, MinVerse is built for real work.
Blog & insights
MinVerse vs. Other 3D Tools: The Ultimate Haptic and 3D Input Technology
How does the MinVerse compare to the Novint Falcon, the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse, VR controllers, the 3D Systems Touch, haptic gloves, and graphics tablets? A device-by-device look at where force feedback changes the game for 3D work.
Blog & insights
Forbes Highlights Haply's Potential in Robotic Healthcare
Forbes featured Haply in its CES 2026 healthcare-technology coverage, spotlighting the Inverse3x and the role of force-feedback haptics in robotic and remote care.
CES 2026
Haply Demonstrates Realistic Force Feedback in Digital Environments
At CES 2026, Haply showed the Inverse3 applying directional forces so users can physically interact with virtual objects — digital materials that feel soft, rigid, or resistant.
CES 2026
iNews24 Highlights Haply's Approach to Physical AI and Robot Learning
iNews24's CES 2026 coverage featured Haply alongside Maum AI, positioning haptic force-and-motion data as the missing element in robot imitation learning.
CES 2026
TimesLIVE Explores Why the Next Generation of Robots Needs Touch
Responding to TimesLIVE's CES 2026 coverage: robots that see but cannot feel stay in cages. Touch and force data let them learn from people and work beside them.
CES 2026
The Verge Names Haply's MinVerse One of the Most Fun Technologies at CES 2026
After hands-on demos, The Verge recognized the MinVerse haptic 3D mouse as the "Most Fun" technology at CES 2026 — force feedback you can feel in everyday design tools.
CES 2026
CNBC-TV18 Features Haply's Touch-Enabled Physical AI Technology
CNBC-TV18's CES 2026 coverage showcased Haply's haptics as the technology that "adds that missing physical dimension" to digital interaction, teleoperation, and AI research.
CES 2026
Heise Online Explores Touch-Enabled Robot Control with Haply
Heise Online featured Haply Robotics during CES 2026, highlighting how the Inverse3 haptic interface creates a more direct connection between a human operator and a digital or robotic system. The coverage demonstrated how force feedback returns physical information to the user instead of only sending movement commands.
Event recaps
Haply Robotics and Geomagic Freeform Debut Co-Developed 3D Sculpting Breakthroughs at CES 2025
Haply Robotics and the Geomagic Freeform team announce co-developed demonstrations at CES Las Vegas, combining Haply's haptic technology and the MinVerse 3D mouse with Geomagic Freeform's modeling engine. Visitors can experience haptic-driven digital sculpting, portable studio-grade performance, and sign up for small-group Freeform workshops at the Venetian Expo booth.
Product updates & announcements
Haply Robotics and NVIDIA Introduce Touch-Enabled Physical AI Training at CES 2026
Haply and NVIDIA built a joint demo integrating force feedback into NVIDIA Isaac Sim — realistic physical interaction during data collection for more robust robotic AI models.
Partnerships
Haply Robotics is Incredibly Proud and Deeply Honored to be Recognized as a Leading Robotics Company by Industry Powerhouses NVIDIA and AWS
NVIDIA's announcement of its full-stack partnership with AWS named Haply Robotics among the leading robotics companies using the NVIDIA Isaac platform with AWS. Haply reflects on what the recognition means for its work in Physical AI and high-fidelity haptic interaction.
Product updates & announcements
Haply Robotics Wins Two CES 2026 Innovation Honoree Awards, Accelerating the Future of Physical AI, Haptics, and 3D Design
Haply was named a 2026 CES Innovation Honoree in two categories — Artificial Intelligence for the Human Advanced Robotics Platform (HARP), and XR & Spatial Computing for a 3D sculpting solution with Hexagon. It marks the second consecutive year of CES recognition, for four Innovation Awards in two years.
Product updates & announcements
Haply Robotics and MedAcuity Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Precision Haptics in Medical and Robotic Systems
MedAcuity, a software engineering firm specializing in complex medical and robotic systems, announced a strategic partnership with Haply Robotics. The companies will co-develop teleoperated solutions for robotic-assisted surgery, remote diagnostics, and immersive simulation training, combining Haply's Inverse3X and MinVerse haptics with MedAcuity's regulatory-grade software expertise.
Product updates & announcements
HAPLY ROBOTICS x NVIDIA Unveil Real-Time Physical AI and Teleoperation Demo at ROBOBusiness 2025
At ROBOBusiness 2025, Haply demonstrated robotics, simulation, and Physical AI at booth #811 with NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, and RTX GPUs. The demo introduced the Human Advanced Robotics Platform (HARP) for human-in-the-loop teleoperation via the Inverse3X controller.
Event recaps
HAPLY ROBOTICS Unveil Real-Time Physical AI and Teleoperation Demo Using NVIDIA Technology at SIGGRAPH 2025
At SIGGRAPH 2025, Haply showcased robotics, simulation, and Physical AI at booth #728 with a hands-on demo powered by NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim, and the RTX platform. The Inverse3X controlled a live Kinova robotic arm through NVIDIA's Three Computer Solution, with haptic calculations running at up to 10 kHz.
Event recaps
Haply Robotics to offer its haptic controller with PickNik's MoveItPro
The Robot Report covered PickNik Robotics' partnership with Haply to bring the Inverse3 haptic controller into the MoveIt Pro developer platform — pairing real-time force feedback with motion planning for teleoperation and robot-learning data collection.
Product updates & announcements
Haply Robotics and PickNik Partner to Power Real-World Robotic Applications with Intuitive Control and Learning
Haply Robotics and PickNik Robotics combine the Inverse3 haptic device with the MoveIt Pro developer platform — a scalable teleoperation solution for intuitive robot control, real-time haptic feedback, and precise human-guided training.
Product updates & announcements
Haply Robotics has introduced the MinVerse 3D tactile mouse for $1500
Gagadget covers the MinVerse Kickstarter launch: a 3D tactile mouse aimed at gamers, 3D designers, engineers and robotics enthusiasts that lets users feel textures and resistance through force feedback, compatible with Blender and RoboDK at launch.
Product updates & announcements
Haply Robotics kickstarting $1,500 MinVerse 3D haptic mouse
NotebookCheck covers the MinVerse Kickstarter launch: a $1,500 MSRP haptic 3D mouse for gamers and creators, with 0-4N of force feedback, a 145 x 330 x 250 mm working range, and launch compatibility with Blender and RoboDK.
Product updates & announcements
MinVerse: A 3D Mouse that Provides Realistic Tactile Feedback and Supports Everything from 3D Modeling to Drawing
Japanese maker-news outlet Fabcross covers the MinVerse Kickstarter debut: a CES 2025 Best of Innovation winner offering up to 4N of dynamic force feedback, compatibility with H.A.R.P., Blender and RoboDK, and a campaign that more than doubled its funding goal.
Product updates & announcements
MinVerse: The Future of Haptic Interaction – Exclusive Interview
In an exclusive interview with GizmoCrowd, Haply co-founder Colin Gallacher explains what makes the MinVerse a game-changer: real-time force feedback that lets users physically feel and manipulate virtual objects. The conversation covers how the technology works, its use cases, community-driven development, and where haptics goes next.
Product updates & announcements
Bridging the Physical and Digital World – The Minverse 3d haptic mouse
eeNews Europe covered the MinVerse launch, relaying the press release's pitch: a 3D mouse that combines high-quality haptic feedback with cutting-edge design so gamers, designers, and innovators can feel textures, forces, and vibrations in digital environments.
Product updates & announcements
Haply Robotics Announces 'Spatial Mouse' for 3D Modeling
Habr covers the MinVerse: a mobile stand that turns a stylus or mouse into a 3D input device with force feedback, compatible with Blender, HARP and RoboDK, launched on Kickstarter with pre-orders from $670.
Product updates & announcements
Design and Surgery: A 3D input arm that lets you use a pen or mouse in mid-air
Gizmodo Japan reviewed the MinVerse as an unusual aerial input device: a pen or mouse held in three-dimensional space by an arm, with haptic feedback that lets you feel the bumps and texture of what you create. The outlet also highlighted its use for robotic arms, drones, games, and remote surgery.
Product updates & announcements
Game-Changing Haptic 3D Mouse Lets You Feel Digital Objects Like They're Real… We Tried It
Yanko Design went hands-on with the MinVerse at CES 2025 and called it a one-in-a-thousand product: a mouse that moves through three dimensions and pushes back when the cursor hits a virtual surface. The review details its 4kHz refresh rate, 2N–4N force feedback, and modular stylus, mouse, and VR attachments.
Product updates & announcements
The MinVerse is Here: The Haptic 3D Mouse for the Digital Age
The MinVerse, Haply's haptic 3D mouse, is officially live on Kickstarter. Awarded CES 2025 Best of Innovation, it brings lifelike textures, forces, and immersion to your fingertips — with exclusive presale pricing and five years of free access to Haply's plugin suite for early backers.
Product updates & announcements
Home hardware: Canadian founders at CES talk challenges and opportunities
BetaKit spoke with Canadian hardware founders at CES 2025, where Haply Robotics earned a Best of Innovation award for the minVerse. Co-founder Colin Gallacher discussed oversold pre-launch orders, building hardware in Canada, and why Canadian companies should aim higher than a quick exit.
Event recaps
Remote Controlled Robot Arm with Feedback: Haply Booth – CES 2025 #64
Turkish tech outlet TechnoPat visits the Haply booth at CES 2025 to try an innovation-award-winning robot arm that can be remotely controlled with a portable device — with force feedback preventing damage to the objects the robot picks up.
Event recaps
Report Card of 4,500 Companies Participating in 'CES 2025' Analyzed by AI... Nvidia Ranks 1st
SDG News reports on a Korea AI Education Association study that used generative AI to grade the 4,500+ exhibitors of CES 2025 — Nvidia topped the large-company ranking, and Haply Robotics was named the number-one startup for the MinVerse 3D touch mouse.
Event recaps
Haply MinVerse and Inverse 3: Goodbye 2D Mouse, the Future is 3D (for Certain Uses)
Italian tech outlet DDay.it reviews Haply's CES 2025 line-up: the MinVerse haptic 3D mouse — winner of a Best Innovation award — and the professional Inverse3 controller, with 0.01 mm resolution and a 4 kHz refresh rate for precision 3D work.
Product updates & announcements
Yanko Design Best of CES 2025: Empowering People to Live Better Lives with AI
Yanko Design's Best of CES 2025 round-up features the Haply MinVerse touch-enabled 3D mouse — praised for its haptic feedback, swappable VerseGrip handles, and compact, portable design for designers, artists, and gamers.
Event recaps
AI with a sense of touch. Overcoming spatial limitations for remote surgery, factory control, etc. [CES 2025]
Korean daily Munhwa Ilbo reports from CES 2025 on the rise of 'AI haptic' technology, spotlighting Haply Robotics' MinVerse — a portable 3D device that lets users feel virtual objects, with applications from remote surgery to factory control.
Event recaps
Health Floor Tour: Haply Robotics with President Colin Gallacher | CES 2025
During the CES 2025 Health Floor Tour by HAVAS SUPER-STREAM, Haply president Colin Gallacher walked attendees through the company's haptic innovations, including the flagship Inverse3 and its role in healthcare, XR, and immersive technologies.
Event recaps
Le Québec à l'honneur au Consumer Electronics Show
Radio-Canada couvre la délégation québécoise au CES 2025 : une soixantaine de personnes issues de 35 entreprises et organisations du Québec, dont Haply Robotics, se sont rendues à Las Vegas pour la grand-messe des technologies.
Event recaps
MinVerse by Haply Robotics is a CES 2025 Best of Innovation Winner
TrendHunter covered the MinVerse as a CES 2025 Honoree in XR Technologies & Accessories and a Best of Innovation award recipient in the Metaverse category. The touch-enabled 3D mouse pairs the precision of a mouse with the immersive control of a VR controller, plus a quick-change VerseGrip handle.
Product updates & announcements
Enhancing Industrial Painting Through Remote Expertise and Safety with the Inverse3 and UR10
The Centre Technologique en Aerospatiale (CTA) combined Haply's Inverse3 haptic controller with a UR10 robotic arm to create a hybrid industrial painting solution. The setup merges robotic precision with intuitive human control, improving painter safety, quality, and regulatory compliance in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing.
Case studies
The MinVerse by Haply Robotics Wins 'Best of Innovation' at CES® 2025
The MinVerse 3D touch mouse was named 'Best of Innovation' in the CES® 2025 Innovation Awards in the Metaverse category and an 'Honoree' in XR Technologies & Accessories. The award recognizes its groundbreaking haptic feedback, immersive control, and compact design.
Product updates & announcements
Why the MinVerse Will Be on Every Desk Within 10 Years
Winner of the CES 2025 Innovation Awards 'Best of Innovation' title, the MinVerse by Haply Robotics brings lifelike texture, force, and intuitive control to virtual worlds. Designed for gamers, designers, roboticists, and tech enthusiasts, the MinVerse is portable, customizable, and supports key 3D software.
Blog & insights
CES 2025 – Exploring the Future of Tech – Major Highlights and Exhibitors
A preview of CES 2025 in Las Vegas — more than 4,300 exhibitors and 138,000 expected attendees — including Haply Robotics, whose MinVerse 3D touch mouse was named a CES Innovation Awards 2025 'Best of Innovation' winner. Condensed from the original dot.B Global article.
Event recaps
Introducing Inverse Installer 3.0: Faster, More Flexible, and Easier to Use
Inverse Installer 3.0 brings a new service layer to Haply's haptic technology: multi-language support, lower CPU usage, JSON-based messaging, and WebSocket communication in place of serial and COM ports.
Technical guides
We're Developing a 3D Touch Mouse: Top Moments from Our First Community Event (Including How to Get 50% Off!)
Recap of the first Haply Creators Club happy hour, held July 18th, 2024 at our Montreal offices, where over 80 attendees got a first look at our upcoming 3D touch mouse. The team shared plans for a CES 2025 launch, new co-development and co-marketing initiatives, and early bird discounts of up to 50% off ahead of the Kickstarter campaign.
Event recaps
Advancing Robotic Control: Haply Robotics and BlackBerry QNX Announce Partnership
Haply Robotics joins forces with BlackBerry QNX, blending advanced haptic control with robust real-time operating systems. Integrating the Inverse3 haptic controller with QNX OS 8.0 creates a secure, responsive closed-loop platform for robotic control.
Product updates & announcements
New Haply Product Names: Official 2024 Update
Haply rolls out official product names across its entire hardware and software line: the Runtime Installer becomes the Inverse Installer, Handles become VerseGrips, and Mounts become VerseMounts. The update also introduces the Inverse SDK and details the accompanying software renames in the Inverse Installer 2.0 release.
Product updates & announcements
Plateau VerseMount Accessory Launch: Elevate Your Inverse3 Experience
Haply announces the Plateau VerseMount, a new ergonomic middle-table mounting accessory for the Inverse3. Built from black matte-finished aluminum with built-in wire channelling, it keeps up to 90% of your workspace usable even while applying full force.
Product updates & announcements
Introducing the New Inverse Installer 2.0: A Comparative Guide to Haply's APIs
A comparative guide to running the Inverse3: the new Inverse Installer 2.0 versus the older HardwareAPIs. It covers which software to download, when the C++ or Python HardwareAPIs still make sense, the Unity Inverse SDK, and what to consider when upgrading from version 1.0.
Product updates & announcements
How Haptic Medical Simulation is Changing Healthcare Training | Haply at IMSH 2024
Haply Robotics joins the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH), January 20-24, 2024 in San Diego, to demonstrate how the Inverse3 transforms medical training. Highlights include an immersive VR surgical simulation that lets users feel the difference between tissue and bone.
Event recaps
6-Axis Robot Control: Haply's Game Changing Tech Unveiled at CES 2024
Haply Robotics heads to CES 2024 (January 9-12, Las Vegas) at Booth 8968 in the Digital Health area of the North Hall. Live demonstrations of the Inverse3 span hybrid robot control, immersive VR surgical training, and force-feedback gaming, showing applications from healthcare to Industry 4.0.
Event recaps
Founder Talk: Moving From 2D To 3D Interaction
Colin Gallacher, President and Co-founder of Haply Robotics, speaks at the Smart Haptics conference in San Diego on December 5-6. The talk covers the evolution of the Inverse3, Haply's approach to the 3D mouse, and the future of human-computer interaction in three dimensions.
Blog & insights
Mastering Micro-Automation: Inverse3 Unleashes Full Potential of the Meca500
Mecademic and Haply Robotics have partnered to deliver a micro-automation solution that combines the precision of the Meca500 robot with the force-feedback capabilities of the Inverse3. The pairing accelerates robot learning and operator training for micromanufacturing, micromanipulation, and microfluidics.
Case studies
Are Touch-Enabled Industrial Robots the Future? Try Haply's Inverse3 at AES 2023
Haply Robotics demonstrates the future of industrial robot control at the Augmented Enterprise Summit 2023, October 24-26 in Houston. Demos show how haptic feedback helps operators control robots in confined spaces and precision tasks, with research showing haptics can boost learning retention in medical simulation by 40%.
Event recaps
Haply at iROS 2023
Haply Robotics headed to iROS 2023 in Detroit to showcase the Inverse3 platform and demonstrate how its haptic technology advances robotic control, teleoperation, reinforcement learning, and intelligent robotics.
Event recaps
Haply at LSX 2023
Haply Robotics joined the LSX USA Congress in Boston, where Colin Gallacher and Paul Stafford connected with MedTech providers interested in integrating advanced haptic technology into healthcare solutions.
Event recaps
FundamentalVR, Haply Robotics partner on VR for surgical training | MassDevice
MassDevice reported on the partnership between FundamentalVR and Haply Robotics to transform traditional surgical training methods through virtual reality. The coverage highlights Haply's Inverse3 haptic controller and FundamentalVR's HapticVR technology for collaborative clinical training.
Blog & insights
FundamentalVR Announces Partnership with Leading Robotics Expert Haply Robotics
FundamentalVR and Haply Robotics announced a partnership supporting FundamentalVR's mission to transform traditional surgical training through virtual reality, pairing the Fundamental Surgery platform with Haply's Inverse3 haptic controller.
Product updates & announcements
VR & Robotics Could Be The Future Of Medical Training | VRScout
VRScout's Kyle Melnick covers the partnership between FundamentalVR and Haply Robotics, which brings Haply's portable haptic technology — including the flagship Inverse3 — to the Fundamental Surgery VR training platform. The pairing aims to make surgical simulation more realistic by mimicking physical touch.
Blog & insights
Haply Robotics Secures $4.8 Million CAD Seed Round to Develop Tactile Tech Used for Surgical Training, Gaming | BetaKit
BetaKit's Olivia Collette reports on Haply Robotics' $4.8 million CAD ($3.5 million USD) seed round led by BDC Capital's Deep Tech Venture Fund. The funds will go towards fine-tuning the portable Inverse3 haptic device for medical training, gamification, robotic control, and 3D interfaces.
Blog & insights
Haply Robotics Secures $3.5 Million USD Seed Round to Transform Haptic Technology for Medical Training and Beyond
Haply Robotics announced a $3.5 million USD seed round led by BDC Capital's Deep Tech Venture Fund to further innovate haptic technology for medical training and gamification, robotic control, and 3D content design.
Product updates & announcements
Voir la vidéo : Un laboratoire de recherche pour les jeunes entreprises | Planète Techno
L'émission Planète Techno se déplace au Centech de Montréal pour voir comment des start-ups, dont Haply Robotics, développent des technologies grâce à la 5G. Le reportage d'Anne-Andrée Daneau présente un laboratoire de recherche dédié aux jeunes entreprises.
Blog & insights
Verizon and Centech unveil results of 5G Development Hub | Verizon
Verizon and Centech announced the results from the first cohort of the 5G Development Hub, launched in collaboration with Bell Canada. Haply Robotics was among the seven startups selected, using 5G's low latency and Mobile Edge Computing to enable near real-time control of robots with haptic feedback.
Blog & insights
Des opérations à distance grâce à la 5G | PlanHub
PlanHub rencontre Haply Robotics au Centech, avec Bell, pour découvrir comment le temps de latence de 1 ms rendu possible par la 5G ouvre la voie à des opérations en temps réel à distance avec retour haptique. Le journaliste Alexis Le Marec a pu creuser des dents à distance et piloter un drone avec l'Inverse3.
Blog & insights
Watch Video: Bell propels the growth of Canadian businesses with the Montréal accelerator Centech | Bell
Bell announced a three-year strategic relationship with Montréal innovation centre Centech, becoming its exclusive telecommunications provider. The announcement highlights Haply Robotics, whose 3D haptic controllers use the high speed and low latency of Bell's 5G network for real-time remote-touch control of physical robots.
Blog & insights
Haptics and the 3D Internet
What haptics means for simulation-based training, remote operation, and advanced content design. Haply lays out the three main areas where touch-enabled devices like the Inverse3 will shape our future, and invites readers to its co-founder's panel session at NVIDIA GTC.
Blog & insights
Making 3D Design Accessible: Haptic Feedback for Sight-Impaired Users
Dr. Lisa Bowers and the Open University showcased MakeActive-UK, a VR touch studio for sight-impaired users built around Haply's Inverse3 and the TOIA haptics platform in Unreal Engine. Participants described the force feedback as smooth, responsive, and a visceral way to feel digital 3D objects.
Case studies
Haply Robotics: Rapid Prototyping With the Fuse 1 | FormLabs
How Haply Robotics used FDM, SLA, and SLS 3D printing to accelerate product development — from winning the CODE LiFE Ventilator Challenge to prototyping haptic devices — and why the team brought a Formlabs Fuse 1 in-house.
Case studies
Haply Wins the CODE LiFE Ventilator Challenge | MGH Foundation
The Montreal General Hospital Foundation and the RI-MUHC, in partnership with the McGill Faculty of Engineering, named Team Haply the winner of the CODE LiFE Ventilator Challenge. The design was selected from over 1,000 teams across 94 countries for its simplicity, low cost, and ease of training.
Blog & insights
Audio Interview : Respirateur assemblable | Québec Réveille
Haply Robotics, une entreprise montréalaise, a développé un respirateur assemblable surnommé le « respirateur IKEA ». L'équipe en parlait au micro de l'émission Québec Réveille pendant la pandémie de COVID-19.
Blog & insights
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