Manuel Cruz is the Chief Scientist and Head of the Human Machine Interface Laboratory (HMI) at Innovobot Labs and a pioneer of haptics technology. He is also the president of the Haptics Industry Forum, a not-for-profit organization that createRochelle Ackerley, Research Director, DR CNRS (Regional Delegation of National Centre for Scientific Research), PhD HDR (Habilitation to conduct research), UMR (Unité mixte de recherche) CRPN (Centre de recherche en psychologie et neuroscience), CNRS - Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.

Rochelle Ackerley is a director of research (professor) at the CNRS, based at Aix-Marseille University in France. Her work on somatosensation spans various body inputs, including discriminative touch, affective touch, haptics, temperature, and proprioception. She gained a PhD in Physiology in 2006 from the University of Bristol in the UK and she has worked in both industry and academia. She uses the technique of microneurography, to explore the activity of peripheral nerves in humans, combining this with neuroimaging and behavioural experiments. She learned the technique of microneurography in Sweden, looking at responses from A-beta mechanoreceptive afferents and C-tactile afferents, extending this to investigate muscle afferents in France. She has published over 50 papers and has ERC Consolidator grant, as well as national and industrial funding.s and streamlines haptics standards and adoption. He has over 25 years of technology industry knowledge, coupled with ground-breaking achievements in HMI and haptics research. He has developed haptic technologies for the medical, automotive, gaming, XR, and mobility sectors. He is a prolific inventor and is named in over 250 US granted and pending patents in the areas of sensing, actuation, and control; as Chief Scientist at Innovobot Labs, Manuel is responsible for developing top-level strategies to establish Innovobot Labs as a go-to resource in the marketplace. In addition to overseeing and supporting all HMI Lab projects, Manuel builds partnerships with various organizations within the private and public sectors, as well as academia.

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