Haptics Club with Christian Lenz and Max Schwarz, two PhD students and members of team Nimbro, the winning team of the AVATAR Xprize competition. We will talk about robotic avatars, their development process and the achievement that won them the competition.

In this episode of the Haptics Club, we talk with Hong Z. Tan. Tan is a renowned haptics scientist at Google, known for her research on perception-based haptic interfaces. With a background in biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and MIT, respectively, Hong has also had extensive industry experience, including a stint at Microsoft Research Asia. She is a Fellow of IEEE for her contributions to wearable haptics and holds concurrent appointments at Purdue University in the fields of Electrical Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Psychological Sciences.

Haptics Club Episode 1 with Alex Meland, community manager of bHaptics. We talk about haptics in VR gaming, haptics trends, and the future of haptics. Read the transcript, or listen within.