Haptikos is making haptic exoskeletons for your hands.
Haptikos is making haptic exoskeletons for your hands.
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Haptikos unveils a hand exoskeleton for grabbing digital things in XR

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Haptikos has unveiled a hand exoskeleton, meant to let you to use your hands with precision in haptic applications. It works with extended reality (XR) devices.

Based in Sunnyvale, California, and Athens, Greece, Haptikos came out of stealth at the MIT Experiential Innovation Event in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company also announced it raised $2.7 million in funding. In this contraption, you wear one on both hands. The exoskeleton can mimic the feel of textures. It creates the sensation of tactile feedback and provides kinesthetics for learning through touch.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.