In The News

2011 Articles

July 11, 2011
The Washington Post
CT scans help reconstruct faces of unidentified victims to solve cold cases
Solving cold cases w/3D modeling - Washington Post on Sensable's Freeform Modeling at National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

June 29, 2011
Product Design & Development

3D touch-enabled modeling helps build an organically designed nasal prosthetic for a skin cancer patient.

June 22, 2011
Mass High Tech

Technicians designing a prosthetic part with the haptic device experience the same physical properties of the materials they are digitally manipulating on-screen.

April 2011
Design World
Mass Customization Gets Its Body On
Sculptural CAD is increasingly used to help create implants and surgical devices

March 2011
Journal of Dental Technology
"
Final Impressions” Q&A with Sensable’s Bob Steingart

March 22, 2011
DrBicuspid.com
Dental CAD/CAM technology and prices improving
Spotlights Sensable’s Intellifit TE (Touch Enabled) Digital Restoration System.

March 2011
Dentistry IQ
Heraeus, Sensable Dental team up on digital dental restorations 
The addition of the Heraeus PremiumR digital tooth library allows dental labs even more choice in creating aesthetically pleasing restorations.

February 2011
Mold Making Technology

With the appropriate digital tools, product design teams can better align beautiful organic designs with manufacturing requirements early in the game.

January 2011
Medical Design Briefs/Curictus
Touch Me, Heal Me: Haptic Solutions for Rehabilitation
The science of human touch involves multiple kinds of responses, including tactile and kinesthetic.

January 2011
Mold Making Technology

An organic 3-D design-for-manufacturing solution from SensAble Technologies allowed Merz Dental to reduce the process of designing and producing a finished mold for a family of denture teeth from 24 months, to just 6 months, while increasing quality.

2010 Articles

4th Quarter 2010
FDLA Focus

Flexible partials are growing in popularity as patients get more involved in their dental care and selecting their restoration options.

November 2010
Design News

Using 3-D CAD and digital sculpting technology, Mega Blocks' designers can quickly model and test toy designs, facilitating an "around-the-clock" development cycle.

November 2010
Lab Tribune

Digital technology is rapidly transforming the dental industry, and as a forward- looking dental lab, it’s important for us to constantly review and adopt the best new products and techniques, so we can offer the best solutions to our doctors
and their patients.

CAD/CAM Vol 1. Issue 2 2010

For more than a hundred years, dental laboratories have designed dental restorations the same way by using a lost-wax process in accordance with which the design is first modelled by hand in wax, then reviewed, refined, invested and finally burned out in the process of creating amould that will be used for casting.

July/August 2010
eLABORATE

A look at CAD/CAM chrome partial frameworks created with the SensAble System.

June 16, 2010
Financial Times.com
Design technologies: Flying off the digital drawing board
Digital design technology brings together visualisation, simulation and analysis.

June 2010
Dental Lab Products

New growth is ahead in the removables market. Will you be ready to meet the demand?

May 25, 2010
PD&D
The Anatomy of Modeling Humans
FreeForm® allowed GPI’s design team to shave weeks from the design time cycle – and deliver a production-ready model in just four days. 

February 18, 2010
cnnmoney.com

Pilots train on flight simulators, so why do physicians learn only by doing?

February 1, 2010
BeefMagazine.com
Virtual Palpation
Advanced technology is helping veterinary students feel and learn their way through the bovine reproductive tract — without the cow.

January 2010
OralHealthJournal.com

Technicians design and create the prosthetic restoration working entirely digitally, while keeping the manual proprioception to which they are accustomed.

January 2010
MD&DI
The Smile Goes Digital
Rapid design and manufacturing advances are speeding up the process to create dental restorations, saving time for dentists and patients.

January 2010
Dental Lab Products

[Technology] almost makes the local lab relationship less important.

2009 Articles

December 17, 2009
Cadalyst
Virtual Clay Turns 3D Modeling into Child's Play
Toy design firm Hot Buttered Elves uses SensAble's FreeForm to create greener decorations for nurseries and children's rooms.

November 23, 2009
MITNews
Feeling the way
Robotic device developed in MIT’s Touch Lab can help visually impaired people navigate around a virtual model of a real building.

October 28, 2009
Discover Magazine
The 3-D Simulation that Lets Your Surgeon Practice...on You
A new technology lets doctors test out procedures on a simulation of the patient's anatomy.

October 26, 2009
The Engineer Online
Virtual surgery aims to replace risky training
Medical students would get their first ‘feel’ for spinal anaesthesia procedures if a new haptically enabled computer simulation system is widely adopted.

October 2009
Design 2 Part

Replacement parts are not just for cars, washing machines, and toasters. Human body parts are increasingly sculpted in 3D modeling software, then manufactured using the same rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing techniques associated with consumer goods.

September 2009
MedTech Precision
Orthopedics Design: Replacing the Replacements
Joints are jumpin’ and muscles are movin’ thanks to technology advances in the patient-specific implants market.

September 17, 2009
Newsweek
 
The temporal bone drilling simulator is undergoing clinical trials at 10 medical centers.

September 2009
eTraining

A new scope simulator allows urologists to practice prostate surgery before setting foot in the operating room. 

August 2009
MJSA Journal

Acropolis Studios speeds time to market for McVan’s religious pendants.

This article first appeared in the August issue of the MJSA Journal. 

August 10, 2009
Wired.com
Virtual Reality Could Keep You From Being a Surgical Guinea Pig
A small but growing group of doctors are trying to make surgical training safer by bringing virtual reality into the operating room — and taking the trial-by-error out.

July 2009
Apex July 2009, Issue 6

View the SensAble story on page 31!

July 29, 2009
Incentives
The Tiger Woods of Trophies 
Sculptor takes advantage of a software/hardware solution called FreeForm, from SensAble Technologies

July 8, 2009
Des Moines Register
Tooth restoration turns to 3-D computerized process
For decades, wax and small hand tools have been used to design dental restorations at Dental Prosthetic Services Inc. But in April, the Cedar Rapids-based company began creating restorations in a virtual world.

July 4, 2009
Product Design & Development
SensAble’s FreeForm Sculpts PGA Trophies
Malcolm DeMille delivers elegance in PGA trophies, awards & golf-themed custom jewelry with FreeForm’s celebrate digital sculpting capabilities.

July 1, 2009
TIme Compression
Incisive Design, Faster Incisors
The old way of making false teeth, crowns and bridges is steadily going the way of wooden choppers.  How your next set of pearly whites may be designed more like your next pair of running shoes.

July 1, 2009
Design World Online
SensAble's FreeForm® 3D Modeling System Helps Create Trophy for Tiger's Tournament 
Golf’s Leading Sculptor Builds a Better Business at the AT&T National And Beyond With SensAble’s FreeForm.

May 2009
Medical Design Technology
Orthotics and Prosthetics Go Digital
Digital, 3D systems are enabling orthotic and prosthetic devices that provide a better fit and a shorter manufacturing time over more traditional solutions.

May 2009
Medical Design Briefs
Rebuilt Body Parts: Technology Puts a New Face On Disease and Disability
Recent advances in digital medical modeling are delivering customized human body parts with amazing new speed and efficiency, and putting a new face on disease and disfigurement - literally.

April 30, 2009
Toronto Globe and Mail
Sculpting on screen
Three-dimensional modelling helps smaller operations go more quickly from concept to finished product
Bastion Studios is giving its toy soldiers marching orders into the digital world.

April 2009
Journal of Dental Technology (JDT), Vol 26, No. 4

Using 3D Virtual Touch for Greater Accuracy, Consistency and Productivity

March 31, 2009
dpreurope.com
Heraeus Kulzer Licenses Tooth Library to SensAble
With Heraeus' tooth library in the SensAble system, technicians of any skill level can eliminate much of the time-consuming manual wax-up, ceramic build-up and contouring required to create perfectly shaped teeth for each patient.

Jan 1, 2009
Desktop Engineering
FreeForm Helps Build Wheels Fit for a Hamster
SensAble's sculptural MCAD system helps design innovative motorcycle parts in half the time.

2008 Articles

Dec 1, 2008
Medical Design
Virtual surgery practice eliminates radiation
The simulator lets surgeons acquire the skills using computer imagery and ‘artificial touch’ in a realistic environment.

November 4, 2008
Cadalyst Manufacturing

Using the FreeForm 3D Modeling System, Wargames Factory's small staff shaved 40% off design and production time.

November 3, 2008
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry (MD&DI) magazine
Personalizing Orthopedic Implants
With contract manufacturers and new technologies, orthopedics companies can deliver cost-effective customized implants with short lead times.

September 25, 2008
NPR - USA
Technology Helps NHL Scout Draft Picks
SensAble Technologies Inc., uses a real hockey stick and a virtual puck to measure how smoothly you can move around the ice and get the puck to the goal.

www.apnews.co.uk

September 23, 2008
The Boston Globe
Woburn firm has haptic test to gauge hockey skills

September 22, 2008
globeandmail.com
Hand on the stick, eye on the screen
SensAble helps NHL central scouting rank hockey draft picks with haptically-enabled testing.

July/August 2008
Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare

The science of haptics—artificial touch technology—is stepping out of the research environment and into commercial medical training applications. 

HowStuffWorks.com
"How Haptic Technology Works"

July 15, 2008
The Engineer Online
Custom-build body parts
The CARTIS (Centre for Applied Reconstructive Technologies in Surgery) group has brought together engineers and clinicians to custom-build body parts using SensAble Technologies' haptic system, FreeForm.>>more

July 14, 2008
RT Image Magazine
Touching Lives; Haptics technology helps semi-automate 3-D imaging

May 30, 2008
Mass High Tech

Product designers are often faced with the challenge of how best to model organic-shaped products or add sculptural details to their designs. Curvaceous products may be aesthetically pleasing, yet using traditional computer-aided design (CAD) programs to design these types of products can be so time consuming 

May 28, 2008
Financial Times 
Car manufacturing: Vehicle makers appreciate the virtues of virtual design
John Deere, the US maker of agricultural and other heavy equipment, is at the forefront of digitally assisted manufacturing. It is experimenting, in conjunction with the Iowa State University, with haptics, a technology that enables a user to "feel" the experience of assembling and disassembling heavy components.

May 21, 2008
3dsystems.com
SensAble Chooses 3D Systems' ProJet™ 3-D Printer to Complement its Dental Lab Production Solution 
3D Systems Corporation (NASDAQ: TDSC), a leading provider of 3-D Modeling, Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing solutions, has announced that SensAble Technologies has chosen its ProJet™ DP (Dental Professional) 3000 Production System to be a part of its integrated SensAble™ Dental Lab System, which scans, designs and fabricates frameworks and substructures for dental restorations. >>more

May 18, 2008
BourneReport.com

The Bourne Report:  Host Marlene Bourne interviews Joan Lockhart, VP Sales & Marketing and Laura Wallace, Director of Marketing for SensAble Technologies, about the use of haptics in the medical industry. Listen to the interview here:  (Select Radio Show Archive, May 18th program)

Marlene Bourne is President & Principal Analyst of Bourne Research LLC, and hosts The Bourne Report, a weekly radio program on Independent 1310 KXAM in Phoenix. The program provides weekly insight on MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems)  and nanotechnology and includes: Next-generation science, cool technologies, and real products. Learn more at: www.bourneresearch.com and

May 12, 2008
Design News
Designing Custom Implants More Efficiently by David Chen, Ph.D
For the past few years, Biomet has relied on a design process for PMI implants using STL file types in which SensAble's FreeForm 3D modeling system is an integral component. >>more

April 2008
Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry (MD&DI) magazine
Konica Minolta Partners with SensAble. The companies have combined SensAble's FreeForm modeling software with Konica Minolta's vivid 910 3-D digitizer.

April 2008
Medical Design Technology
Sensitive to the Touch by David Chen, Ph.D
Touch of Life Technologies (ToLTech) recently launched a diagnostic knee arthroscopy simulator, ArthroSim, in which surgeons use two PHANTOM haptic devices from SensAble Technologies--one in each hand--to interact with their virtual patient.

February 2008
Inventors Digest
FreeForm 3D Modeling System: A Cool Tool for the Artist and the Corporate Manufacturing World
With FreeForm, designers literally sculpt their model virtually as if it were real clay using the PHANTOM Desktop device and FreeForm 3D modeling software.

 2007 Articles

Getting in Touch: 3-D Virtual Maps for the Blind
Scientific American.com, April 4, 2007
A new system that creates virtual maps could help the visually impaired navigate new terrain. Researchers in Greece have developed a new system that converts video into virtual, touchable maps for the blind.

2006 Articles

The Elves are Computerized
WIRED News, December 22, 2006
Haptics in the Toy Industry. Writer Alexander Gelfand explores how haptic technology makes the digital modeling process even more attractive and accessible to the average designer.

 
COINage Magazine, November 2006 - On newstands in October
John Mercanti heads up the creative team at the United States Mint. John designed the 2006 Buffalo gold bullion $50 coin using FreeForm.

Doc at a Distance
IEEE Spectrum, October 2006
Robot surgeons promise to save lives in remote communities, war zones, and disaster-stricken areas.


Mass High Tech, Augist 18 2006
Read how SensAble puts 'feeling' into medical training and surgery.

2005 Articles


Game Developer magazine, August 2005
The ClayTools system v1.0 receives a rating of 4 out of 5 by Game Developer magazine.
 
2004 Articles

CADCAMNet: Freeform strengthens links to manufacturing
CADCAMNet, March 11, 2004
With the seventh release of its flagship CAD software, Sensable Technologies has added tools to speed conversion of hard-to-model products from concept to volume production.


Mass High Tech, January 2004
SensAble CEO Curt Rawley describes how FreeForm® Concept™ gives product designers total control by engaging their sense of touch in the virtual world.
 

2003 Articles
 
New Device Brings Virtual Vision to the Blind
Eurotimes, April 2003
Read how SensAble's PHANTOM® is making it possible for a blind person to touch virtual objects, much like a sighted person can see objects or pictures on a computer screen.


Mass High Tech, February 3-9, 2003
At the Museum of Science in Boston, MA, SensAble Technologies and the Boston Police Dept. reveal what an Egyptian mummy might have looked like 2,500 years ago.

FreeForm Version 6 - SensAble's haptic system evolves
Computer Graphics World, April 2003
George Maestri reviews the latest version of the FreeForm Modeling system. George tells readers that "For those who need a sense of touch with their models, FreeForm might just be the ticket."


Ceramic Industry, April 2003
"A new modeling program is significantly streamlining the amount of time required to bring new glass and ceramic tableware and decorative products to market."


World Footwear, March/April 2003
Find out how the FreeForm system provides a reduction in time-to-market and decreases costs associated with production for the athletic and casual footwear industry.

2002 Articles
 

Time Compression Technologies Magazine, May/June 2002
Equity Marketing cut time-to-market in half and generated huge cost savings on a line of toys developed with its FreeForm Modeling-based digital pipeline.
Time Compression Technologies May/June article

2001 Articles
 

September 2001
" FreeForm Modeling's unique combination of physical and digital modeling offers a revolutionary approach to industrial design."


August 2001
" Kurland agrees that FreeForm Modeling is "a must see for industrial designers seeking the perfect blend of form and function."

Imagining Faster
Darwin Magazine - July 2001
" The way physical products are designed is about to undergo a stunning change," explains Scott Kirsner who examines new design tools and software to move products to market.


Design Fax Magazine, July 2001
Editors give FreeForm Modeling a 5-star product award and RJ Studios' Tony Rogers explains how it is a big part of their future.

3D Force Feedback CAD Hardware
Cadence Magazine, July 2001
Senior Technical Editor Peter Sheerin investigates 3D force feedback systems and tells readers that they "will eventually change the way you work--for the better."


Millimeter Magazine, May 2001
Kleiser-Walczak leverages the FreeForm Modeling system for modeling of highly detailed characters in Corkscrew Hill, a computer generated ride film at Busch Gardens. Millimeter's Ellen Wolfe gives readers a look at their process.


April 2001
" The FreeForm Modeling system is absolutely state-of-the-art...If you save your pennies, it would be money well spent."


Awards


2000 Articles and Awards
 

Computerworld, October 2000
Russell Kay investigates the latest sense to be addressed by computers-touch.


Computer Graphics World, September 2000
Karen Moltenbray showcases FreeForm models from SensAble's FreeForm Modeling challenge.


August 2000
" FreeForm encourages creativity and interaction with the digital model in a way that no other system comes close to matching."


Computer Graphics World, February 2000
From the functional to the fantastic, new interface technologies are slowly changing the way we perceive and manipulate digital information.

Computer Graphics World
January 2000
Michael DeFeo, a senior modeler at Blue Sky Studios, reviews FreeForm Modeling¹s debut release citing its "potential to revolutionize the future of modeling."


IDSA Innovation Magazine, January 2000
Industrial Designer Doug Cleminshaw finds a design and communications solution by combining FreeForm Modeling with scanning and 3D printing technology.

Ultimate CAD Workstation
CADENCE Magazine, January 2000
Peter Sheerin builds his dream desktop with the tools certain to stand out in the new millennium.
 
Awards

  • Euromold: Innovation Award
  • SatisFecit: Most Innovative Product
  • IDSA: Industrial Design Excellence Award


1999 Articles and Awards


Computer Graphis World, November 1999
With SensAble's PHANTOM interface, real-time collision detection brings virtual surgery closer to reality.


Computer Graphics World, October 1999
Collaborative efforts between Hershey Medical Center and Millersville University provide a "smart" haptic simulator to help novice surgeons learn from the pros.


Computer Graphics World, August 1999
Diana Mahoney introduces FreeForm Modeling - the product "that is expected to have the greatest impact on the graphics industry."


Computer Graphics World, August 1999
GE Researchers use the PHANTOM haptic interface in conjunction with custom software to simulate physical interactions with models for digital mock-up applications and for assembly training and maintenance.


Awards


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  • 3D Magazine: Wired for 3D
  • New England Technology Fast 500


  • New England Technology Fast 50 Award


1998 Awards


Computer Graphics World, October 1998
Mark Hodges introduces the graphic community to haptics-Tools that add the sense of touch to the computer desktop are providing users with a sense of reality.