Company
Overview SensAble Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of 3D touch-enabled digital solutions for commercial software development, academic and commercial research, product design, and digital content creation
and fine arts
Privately-held company headquartered
in Woburn, Massachusetts
Over 4,000 systems installed worldwide
Worldwide reach through direct and reseller channels
Founding History
The first PHANTOM® haptic device was designed and built in the early 1990s by Thomas Massie and Dr. Kenneth Salisbury. Massie, an undergraduate student at MIT at the time, and Dr. Kenneth Salisbury, then a principal research scientist at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, worked together to combine robotic and haptic technologies to "reach into the computer display" and touch and manipulate 3D data. What began as a thesis project was validated when demand for the PHANTOM device began to spread through MIT and the research communities of other leading institutions. SensAble™ was formally incorporated in 1993.
Selected Customers
Haptic application development customers
include Boeing, CSIRO, GE, KAIST, MIT, NTT Research Lab, RIKEN, Sandia
National Labs, Stanford University, Tokyo University, University of
Glasgow, University of Hong Kong, University of North Carolina, and
University of Siena.
FreeForm® system customers include: adidas-Salomon, Black &
Decker-HHI, Creata Promotion USA, Inc., DaimlerChrysler, Gillette,
Hallmark, Hasbro, Hermon Industries Limited, Honda, Hoyu Tooling,
Levolor, Luen Shing Tools Limited, Mattel/Fisher-Price, Medicom Toy,
Mega Bloks, Inc., PDD Group Ltd., Playmobil, Reebok, Unitec Tooling,
United States Mint, Volkswagen, and leading universities and research
facilities worldwide.
Company
Milestones
| 2006 |
ClayTools v1.2 shipped |
| 2006 |
FreeForm Modeling and FreeForm
Modeling Plus v9.0 shipped |
| 2005 |
FreeForm® Concept ™
- v2.2 shipped |
| 2005 |
FreeForm® Modeling Plus™
- v8.2 shipped |
| 2005 |
ClayTools™ system for
Maya® - v1.0 to ship in August |
| 2005 |
OpenHaptics™ Academic
Edition special licensing to ship in August |
| 2005 |
OpenHaptics toolkit - v2.0
shipped |
| 2005 |
3D Touch™ Developer
Challenge winners announced |
| 2005 |
ClayTools system for Rhinoceros®
- v1.0 shipped |
| 2005 |
ClayTools system for 3ds max®
- v1.0 shipped |
| 2004 |
2,500th SensAble system shipped |
| 2004 |
FreeForm® Modeling Plus™ system
v8.0 with Multi-representational Geometry Technology (MGT) shipped |
| 2004 |
FreeForm® Concept™ system v2.0 with new
modeling features and performance enhancements shipped |
| 2004 |
OpenHaptics™ toolkit v1.0 for haptic application
development shipped |
| 2004 |
3D Touch™ Developer Challenge with $800
PHANTOM® Omni™ Developer Kit announced |
| 2004 |
FreeForm Modeling Plus system version
7.1 with mold design enhancements shipped |
| 2004 |
PHANTOM Omni Developer Kit shipped |
| 2004 |
PHANTOM Premium 3.0/6DOF haptic device
shipped |
| 2004 |
3D Touch SDK and Haptic Device API (HDAPI)
shipped |
| 2004 |
GHOST® SDK v4.0 – Linux®
Update Feb-04 shipped |
| 2003 |
FreeForm Modeling Plus system v7.0 including
mold design and photo-realistic rendering shipped |
| 2003 |
FreeForm Concept system v 1.0 with PHANTOM
Omni device shipped |
| 2003 |
FreeForm® Mold™ system v1.0
shipped |
| 2002 |
FreeForm® Modeling™ system v
6.0 speeds digital pipeline |
| 2002 |
Visual communication package provides
photo-realistic rendering, viewer file publishing |
| 2002 |
Bandai adopts FreeForm Modeling system
as backbone of digital toy production process |
| 2002 |
FreeForm Modeling system v5.0 transforms
traditional product development process |
| 2001 |
SensAble ships 1000th system |
| 2000 |
$23 million in new funding |
| 1999 |
FreeForm Modeling system shipped |
| 1998 |
PHANTOM® Desktop™ haptic device
is introduced |
| 1997 |
GHOST SDK provides simplified development
of touch-enabled applications |
| 1996 |
First venture capital round, and changed
company name to SensAble Technologies, Inc. |
| 1995 |
100th PHANTOM interface shipped |
| 1993 |
SensAble Devices is founded and first
PHANTOM device is shipped |
Product Line
SensAble Technologies is a leading provider of 3D touch-enabled digital solutions for commercial software development, academic and commercial research, product design, and digital content creation and fine arts. At the core of SensAble products is the PHANTOM line of haptic devices, which makes it possible for users to touch and manipulate virtual objects. SensAble offers the broadest range of haptic devices and toolkits for haptic application development, the FreeForm systems for product design and the ClayTools system for digital content creation and fine arts.
Haptic devices and toolkits for third-party development
Different models in the PHANTOM product line of haptic devices meet the varying needs of commercial software developers, academic and commercial researchers, product designers, digital content creators, and fine artists. The PHANTOM Premium models are high-precision instruments and, within the PHANTOM product line, provide the largest workspaces and highest forces, and some offer 6 degrees of freedom (6DOF) force-feedback capabilities. The PHANTOM Desktop and PHANTOM Omni models offer affordable, desktop solutions.
The OpenHaptics™ toolkit enables software developers to add haptics and true 3D navigation to a broad range of applications, including 3D design and modeling, medical, games, entertainment, visualization, and simulation. The OpenHaptics toolkit is patterned after the OpenGL® API, making it familiar to graphics programmers and facilitating integration with new or existing OpenGL applications.
FreeForm systems - Fast 3D modeling with precision for product design
The FreeForm systems are unique touch-enabled solutions for fast
3D modeling of complex, highly-detailed, organic shapes for manufacturing.
The systems use a virtual clay metaphor that provides unparalleled
creative freedom, and include a PHANTOM device—a true 3D
interface with force feedback. Users work in 3D faster than ever
before because they use their sense of touch to model virtual
clay just like real clay. The FreeForm systems are easy to learn,
and users typically become productive within a few days. The FreeForm
Modeling system offers a fast and cost effective way for designers
and modelers to create original models or modify and stylize scan
data, and then output to RP systems for prototyping or milling.
The FreeForm Modeling Plus system has all the capability of the
FreeForm Modeling system and also enables users to prepare models
for molding and manufacturing, and output to CAD/CAM.
ClayTools system - Sculptural modeling for digital content creation and fine arts
The ClayTools system delivers incredibly fast, unconstrained modeling and is ideal for sculptural modeling of complex, organic shapes for digital content creation and fine arts such as sculpture and portions of jewelry design. With ClayTools software and the PHANTOM® Omni™ device, users model with virtual clay and then smudge, smooth, carve, and tug to add details, blends, and textures that are challenging to achieve with traditional modeling tools. The ClayTools software works in combination with other design applications such as 3ds Max®, Maya®, and Rhino™, enabling users to expand the use of tools they may already have.
Executive Management
Team
Curt Rawley - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Bob Steingart - President and Chief Operating Officer
Bob Kittler - Chief Financial Officer
Mark Tatkow - Vice President of Sales
Joe Wisnewski - Vice President of Engineering
Dave Girard - Director of Operations and Hardware Development
Laura Wallace - Director of Marketing
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