Touch, voice, gesture, vision and haptics are where a product earns trust or loses it. We engineer interfaces that help people operate complex machines safely and intuitively, while reducing interface risk before it becomes late-stage redesign.
Haptics deployed at global scale. Our team engineered haptics deployed in billions of devices, including the PlayStation®5 DualSense™ controller.
Innovobot’s HMI Lab designs next-generation interaction systems that enable intuitive, safe, and efficient collaboration between humans and intelligent machines.
Our team includes pioneers of modern haptics and human-machine interaction, behind technologies deployed in billions of consumer and industrial devices, including the PlayStation®5 DualSense™ controller, and foundational innovations that transformed mobile haptics at Samsung.
Our multidisciplinary teams develop multimodal interfaces. By tightly integrating HMI, AI, and IoT, we help organizations deliver business-ready systems that redefine user experience and operational excellence.
Four problems on every HMI roadmap right now.
The interface is becoming one of the hardest parts of the product. Regulation, operator workload and AI are changing what a successful HMI has to do.
What we build
One HMI problem can span interaction design, sensing, electronics, firmware, intelligence and human factors. We bring those disciplines together around the system.
AR/XR and spatial interaction
Digital twins and remote operation
Adaptive and ML-enhanced interfaces
Safety-aware interfaces
Usability engineering
Use-related risk analysis
Accessibility
Field validation
Four things touch does that a screen can’t.
Haptics is one of our deepest areas of expertise, and a channel many product teams still underuse.
Beyond the interface itself, haptics can support simpler control architectures, stronger operator awareness and new forms of remote interaction.
One path from interface risk to production-ready decisions.
We enter at whichever stage you need, then connect the user, technical and commercialization decisions that need to move together.
Frame the real problem
Map the technology, user and regulatory landscape before major design decisions are locked in.
Design the interaction
Concept development, interaction architecture and user experience.
Prototype with real users
Experiential prototypes in real conditions, where technical risk can be reduced and new IP can emerge.
Get it to production
Pre-production design, human factors documentation, IP strategy and manufacturing readiness.
From interface risk to production-ready decisions.
We enter at whichever stage you need, then connect the user, technical and commercialization decisions that need to move together.
Proof, not promises.
Examples of interface work across medical devices, automotive and consumer electronics.
Partner: HapticHeart Solutions
The challenge
Robotic and minimally invasive cardiac procedures eliminate the tactile feedback surgeons rely on. HapticHeart Solutions needed to restore that sense of touch: in real time, with low latency, integrated into surgical workflows.
Our approach
We developed modular wearable haptics integrated into surgical gloves and armbands, delivering low-latency force and pressure feedback to improve procedural precision. Validated with clinicians and showcased at the Heart Rhythm Society meeting.
Outcome
A clinically validated wearable haptic system advancing toward commercialization: proving HMI’s critical role in life-saving applications.
Partner: Dell
The challenge
Lack of a reliable system to characterize haptic feedback, causing inconsistencies between measured parameters and user experience.
Our approach
Innovobot co-developed a robotic testing platform with Dell, paired with in-house analytics to automatically characterize haptic feedback: delivering a repeatable, data-driven system that improved accuracy, speed, and UX insight.
Outcome
Co-developed with Dell, resulting in joint IP filing and shared commercialization revenue.
Partner: TDK, BOE, Microchip
The challenge
Develop a high-definition haptic automotive display that integrates advanced components while reducing cost and meeting automotive durability standards.
Our approach
Using a whole-system, co-development approach with three partners, Innovobot delivered a reference tactile display design: integrating sensors, actuators, suspension and structure, optimized for user-friendly, automotive-rated haptic performance.
Outcome
Achieved over 60% cost reduction and improved tactile performance and reliability, delivering a scalable, market-ready innovation built on Innovobot’s expertise in systems integration, haptics and UX design.
Partner: Inflight Canada
The challenge
Passenger and occupant comfort: in flight, in vehicles, and beyond, was limited to visual and audio experience, with no scalable way to add meaningful physical comfort and wellness through the seat itself.
Our approach
We designed and prototyped a full haptic seating system with multipoint spatial feedback: an immersive concept, synchronized with entertainment, built to support relaxation and wellness across seating applications from aviation to automotive.
Outcome
Improved sleep quality, reduced fatigue, and a differentiated experience, with Inflight Canada as the first proof point for a seating platform designed to extend beyond it.
You get our partners too.
Interface problems rarely sit inside one company. We bring together the relevant engineering disciplines, suppliers and partners so integration and production constraints can be considered earlier in the program.
Founded with Innovobot Labs, XeelTech and STIWA to make haptic systems practical at production scale.
Integration partner for Razer Sensa HD haptics.
Accelerating haptic actuator development and time to market.
An Innovobot company. 46 years and 900+ projects in sensors, wireless and mixed-signal design.
Our Chief Scientist chairs the board.
Built for teams making consequential interface decisions.
Questions we hear early.
With a short, paid discovery phase: we frame the problem, survey the technology and regulatory landscape, and return with paths, costs and risks. You own the output either way.
No. Haptics is where we’re deepest, but many interface programs are multimodal. The right answer may combine touch, voice, gesture, vision, physical controls and haptics depending on the use case.
Yes. We support usability engineering aligned to IEC 62366-1 and FDA human factors expectations, including formative and summative evaluation.
Both, through pre-production design and manufacturing readiness.
Tell us the problem and the constraint: cost, thickness, power, timeline or regulatory path: and we’ll tell you straight whether it is solvable and what it takes.
