An interview with Peter Berkelman and Ralph Hollis, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. Please define haptic. Haptic means interacting through a sense of touch that combines tactile and kinesthetic sensations.
Haptic interaction is a relatively new research field.
Several research groups are developing various kinds of devices, including linkage devices, tension cable devices, or exoskeletons that all try to give the user the sensation or experience of physically interacting with some kind of virtual or remote environment. The other wording is magnetic levitation. Flotor is a sort of coined term in this maglev idea. Instead of having a rotor in a motor that just spins, we have a flotor that actually moves and rotates in a full six degrees of freedom. So that's three degrees of translation and three degrees of rotation.