Joe Mullenbach
Co-founder & CEO
Fifteen years building haptic hardware; six products shipped to manufacturing across three hardware startups. PhD in mechanical engineering, Northwestern.
01 About
Built by the people who built the field.
Fluid Reality is a Carnegie Mellon spinout building the highest-resolution haptic feedback actuators in the world. We work from mHUB Chicago, the largest manufacturing innovation hub in the US, surrounded by the people who put things together for a living.
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Patents pending
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Best-paper awards
1,000+
Prototypes built
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Engineering & science degrees
02 Team
Craig Shultz
Co-founder & CTO
Professor of electrical and computer engineering at UIUC. Inventor on the core electroosmotic actuator patents. Twelve years building haptics with Joe. Six best-paper awards between them.
Roger Reinertsen
Materials Science
Actuator materials research: the chemistry behind million-cycle lifetimes.
Gabriel Beutel
Mechanical Engineering
Production engineering: from lab prototypes to kits that ship.
Advisors
Ed Colgate
Inventor of the cobot
Chris Harrison
Director, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon
Bob Dobkin
Co-founder, Linear Technology
Built with researchers and engineers from
03 Careers
We hire builders.
Hardware, firmware, materials, and the software that ties touch to physical AI. If you want your work in people’s hands (literally), write us.
hiring@fluidreality.comFor investor inquiries, reach Joe on LinkedIn.