CNBC-TV18 Features Haply’s Touch-Enabled Physical AI Technology

At CES 2026, CNBC-TV18 visited Haply Robotics to explore how our haptic technology brings the sense of touch into digital, simulated, and robotic environments.

The feature highlighted our work in force feedback, human-machine interaction, and Physical AI. It demonstrated how haptic interfaces can help people physically interact with experiences that would otherwise exist only on a screen.

Moving beyond visual interaction

Most digital systems communicate primarily through images and sound.

Users can see a three-dimensional model, watch a robot move, or observe a simulation, but these experiences often lack the physical information people naturally rely on when interacting with the real world.

At Haply, we add that missing physical dimension.

Our force-feedback interfaces respond to the user’s movement by applying forces through the device. Depending on the application, users may perceive contact, resistance, boundaries, or changes in the behaviour of the virtual environment.

Instead of only seeing an interaction, the user can begin to feel it.

Feeling digital objects

In three-dimensional design and modelling, haptic feedback can make virtual objects feel more tangible.

As a user moves through a digital model, our device can respond to its surface, shape, or programmed material behaviour. This creates a physical relationship between the user’s hand and the digital content.

For sculpting and modelling workflows, touch can make the experience feel closer to working with a physical material. Users can explore forms through a combination of sight, movement, and force feedback rather than relying exclusively on visual cues.

We design our technology to make this kind of three-dimensional interaction more direct and intuitive.

Connecting people with robots

Haptic technology can also create a two-way interface between a person and a robotic system.

In a teleoperation workflow, an operator uses a haptic device to guide a robot or simulated robotic arm. Information from the interaction can then be translated into forces that the operator feels through the interface.

• The operator’s movement guides the robot

• The robotic or simulated environment returns physical information

Force feedback may help communicate when contact occurs, when resistance changes, or when a robot interacts with an object.

The exact experience depends on the complete system, including the robot, sensors, software, and haptic integration.

Supporting Physical AI research

Physical AI describes intelligent systems that perceive, reason, and act in the physical world.

Vision is an important part of this process, but it cannot communicate every property of a physical interaction. Robots must also account for contact, resistance, force, and the effect of their movements on surrounding objects.

Our haptic interfaces support research into how people guide robotic tasks and how physical interaction can be represented in simulation.

We have worked within NVIDIA’s robotics and Physical AI ecosystem to explore how force-feedback interfaces can support simulation, robot control, and human-guided interaction.

This work connects human movement with digital and robotic systems, creating new opportunities for robotics development and training.

A more natural way to interact with technology

People understand the world through a combination of sight, sound, movement, and touch.

As digital environments become more spatial and robots become more capable, the interfaces used to control them must also evolve.

Traditional input devices remain useful, but they were not designed to communicate the full physical behaviour of a three-dimensional or robotic environment.

We are building force-feedback technology that helps make those interactions feel more immediate and understandable.

Our goal is not simply to add vibration. It is to create a responsive physical connection between the user’s actions and the system being controlled.

Watch the CNBC-TV18 feature

Watch the original CNBC-TV18 CES 2026 feature to see Haply’s technology demonstrated in digital and Physical AI environments.

Original source

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n81kUk8IdhY

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