Haply Robotics: Felix Desourdy outlines potential benefits of haptics to first responders

Felix Desourdy, lead mechanical engineer for Haply Robotics, explains how haptics technology–the use of solutions that communicate via the sense of touch and motion–could be used to deliver messaging to first responders under stress, when their visual and hearing senses may be overwhelmed. At the PSCR Public Safety Broadband Stakeholders Meeting in Chicago, Haply Robotics demonstrated how haptics could be used to alert a public-safety officer about the location of a shooter in a parking garage by applying pressure to different parts of the neck.