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Founded with the support and expertise of Switzerland's leading R&D facilities, Force Dimension has more than a decade of first-hand haptic technology expertise. Close partnerships with leaders in R&D, high-tech manufacturing and marketing enable the company to stay constantly at the cutting edge of haptic design. With a growing list of satisfied customers worldwide, Force Dimension is now expanding its operations and looking to an exciting future.
As an engineering and service support company geared to the needs of the most demanding users, Force Dimension has developed a high-end haptic device which can be easily customised to various industry needs and is straightforward to integrate. Our vision has come true. Build the most user-friendly and powerful haptic force feedback system on the market to provide the best-in-class solution for a wide range of application areas.
Haptic devices can now play a key role in an endless and constantly increasing number of areas:
Research and development
Force Dimension's force feedback haptic devices are designed for serious haptic researchers and engineers who need the best equipment available for their work on the latest developments in all of these fields. Leading research institutes worldwide use Force Dimension's products in, for example:
- neuroscience
- enhanced user interface to VR simulations
- virtual CAD assembly
- augmented reality in CAVEs
- experimental haptics / education
- basic research in perception
- medical simulation
- image processing
- microsurgery
- (micro) robotics
Medical surgery and simulation
Remote control in highly complex heart and brain surgery systems.
Force Dimension's force feedback devices are used by its OEM system partners in the medical field to control activities in highly complex surgical procedures that are conducted around the head for example. | These operations require the highest precision, which can only be achieved with specialized surgery systems. | Force Dimension's force feedback devices were chosen by OEM partners to take over high-precision control allowing the operator both to make high precision moves and to feel instantly how much force he/she is applying, thereby providing the extreme controllability necessary for a successful operatio
Nanomanipulation
With the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope at the IBM research laboratory in Zurich, Switzerland, for which Binnig and Rohrer were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, it finally became possible to look at single atoms and molecules.
Nowadays various different scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) based on different physical principles are used, such as
- STM
- contact AFM and ncAFM
- MFM
Force Dimension's haptic force feedback devices - in conjunction with a scanning probe microscope - now allow the nanotechnology and nanoscience community not only to look at atoms and molecules but even to touch them.
Applications that are now possible include
- manipulation and preparation of carbon nanotubes
- manipulation and preparation of microbiological systems
- removal of micro- and nanoparticles on optical masks in the semiconductor industry
- assembly and testing of MEMS
- probe preparation for transmission electron microscopy
- enabling of new metrology applications using nanotechnology
- building of molecular computing machines and quantum computers
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