Our mission is to scale human capability and presence through remote touch. We are building and promoting a culturally diverse, open, transdisciplinary community of researchers, thinkers, students, entrepreneurs, and world leaders.
This modern facility marks a significant step forward for our institution, promising enhanced research capabilities and collaborative opportunities for our community.
Here’s what you can expect from our new lab:
Spaces for HFI Staff, Faculty, and Students: Providing designated offices for HFI staff and affiliated faculty, as well as desks for students, the lab will support a conducive environment for research and learning.
Cafeteria/Social Space: Offering a space for community members to connect and recharge, our cafeteria/social area will serve as a hub for casual interaction and idea exchange.
Academic Hub for Events: Equipped to host events of varying sizes, our lab’s academic hub will facilitate seminars, symposiums, and other gatherings to foster intellectual discourse.
Conference Rooms: Our facility will feature conference rooms tailored for efficient lab meetings, brainstorming sessions, and project discussions.
Specialized Lab Spaces: With dedicated areas for VAMR testing, tissue handling, interfacing engineering, robotics, and networking security engineering, researchers will have the tools and environments needed to advance their work in diverse fields.
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HFI APPLICATIONS
The ability to fully inhabit and interact with the physical and virtual world through HFI technologies has groundbreaking applications across healthcare, education, gaming, and military sectors.
Prosthetics
Our transformative, sensory-integrated prosthetics restore the wearer’s sense of touch—enabling individuals living with limb loss to grasp and feel the softness and warmth of a loved one’s hand.
Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)
Explosive ordnance disposal technicians can manipulate robotic arms to feel the delicate tension in wires, defusing a device from a safe distance.
Next Generation of Gaming
HFI’s gaming wearables transcend standard audiovisual capabilities, allowing gamers to fully immerse themselves in their virtual world by feeling nuanced physical properties of objects they encounter.
A Collaborative
Our team brings together world-renowned leaders in the fields of robotics, biomedical engineering, neuroscience, neuroengineering, phenomenology with those from the humanities, sociology, anthropology, and ethics to develop inclusive technology that is attuned to societal concerns, has the potential for greatly improving quality of life, and which can be deployed equitably.
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