HapticHeart

HapticHeart Solutions

Our goal is to revolutionize the $14 billion per year electrophysiology, cardiac catheterization and surgical robotic markets by integrating haptic feedback into catheter-based and minimally invasive operative procedures to improve safety, procedural efficiency, and patient outcome.

We have built a system that can transduce biophysical and physiological signals from the cardiac catheterization /electrophysiology suites and from surgical instrumentation into actionable haptic feedback delivered to operators via a wearable interface. This device-agnostic solution can be customized for multiple use cases for catheter-based structural heart, cardiac electrophysiology, and robotic-based interventions. Our current design includes a microprocessor that communicates via a wearable and Haptic Handle.

Company Focus

Sense of Touch is needed to navigate the rapid pace of innovation, particularly as current solutions are creating visual overload and more complexity with steeper learning curves

Cardiac procedures and surgical interventions have largely become minimally invasive, resulting in a loss of tactile feedback from palpation of live organ systems and technologies have evolved with increasing degrees of complexity and need for multiple visual displays. These procedures require challenging and potentially risky maneuvers such as accessing the left side of the heart from the right using a needle (transseptal puncture), repairing and replacing heart valves, implanting left atrial appendage occlusion devices, and ablation of cardiac tissue by manipulating catheters that do not provide tactile feedback. There have also been significant advances in laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery that likewise stand to benefit from haptic feedback. The rapid pace of innovation requires even the most experienced operators to repeatedly learn new techniques and technologies.

Inexperience leads to complications.
Less experienced operators are needed to meet procedural demand.

Our Technology

A system and a wearable device that converts physiological and physical signals into actionable haptic feedback

HapticHeart Solutions™ enables physicians to palpate dynamic changes in biophysical properties, physiologically relevant signals, and key procedural events while performing catheter-based cardiovascular interventions and minimally invasive robotic surgeries.

FAQ

What types of signals does the haptic system work with?

The HapticHeart computing system is designed to input and transduce physical and physiological signals into palpable sensations that facilitate manipulation of inserted instrumentation and simulate measurements of intracardiac pressure, catheter-tissue contact force, indices indicative of tissue contact/injury, blood flow data, temperature, etc. It is not a vibratory alert system but rather designed to recreate and simulate what is being sensed, enabling the operator to feel as if their hand and fingers are performing the procedure directly, touching moving biological tissue.

Has there been any proof-of-concept data to date?

Yes. Data, including work performed using animal studies, has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences, including Heart Rhythm Society 2025, American College of Cardiology, Atrial Fibrillation Symposium, Cardiovascular Research Technologies, and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Abstracts of this work can be provided upon request.

Is there specific structural heart or electrophysiology equipment that the system can interface with?

HapticHeart’s computing system is device agnostic and designed to acquire signals from a host of cardiovascular diagnostic and therapeutic equipment and has interfaced with hemodynamic monitoring systems in the cardiac cath lab and cardiac ablation contact force sensing systems in the animal lab.