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HappyHorse-1.0

HappyHorse-1.0 is a text-to-video and image-to-video AI model that took #1 on the Artificial Analysis Video Arena in April 2026 before being attributed to Alibaba's Future Life Lab.

HappyRobot

HappyRobot is a San Francisco startup that builds enterprise AI agents handling phone calls, emails, and workflows, beginning in freight and logistics and valued at $1.2 billion in 2026.

HAProxy

HAProxy, short for high availability proxy, is a free open-source load balancer and reverse proxy written in C, created by Willy Tarreau and first released in 2001.

Haptic guidance

Haptic guidance is a human-machine interaction technique in which forces, vibrations, or motions delivered through a haptic interface steer a human operator's movements during teleoperation and robot-assisted manipulation.

Haptic Paddle

The Haptic Paddle is a low-cost, single-axis force-feedback joystick developed at Stanford University in the mid-1990s; students assemble and program it to feel virtual forces.

Haptic technology

Haptic technology is a tactile feedback technology that applies forces, vibrations, and motions to the user's sense of touch, used in phones, game controllers, and surgical robots.

HaptX gloves

HaptX gloves are enterprise haptic gloves made by HaptX, a Seattle-area company founded in 2012, that simulate touch in virtual reality and robot teleoperation using microfluidic actuators driven by compressed air rather than vibrating motors.

Haraden Pratt

Haraden Pratt (1891–1969) was an American radio engineer, chief of wartime NDRC communications research, and IRE president who won the Institute's Medal of Honor in 1944.

Haradh-Abqaiq Oil Plants Pipelines

The Haradh-Abqaiq Oil Plants Pipelines (خط انابيب حرض- بقيق) are Saudi Aramco oil pipelines carrying crude oil, condensate, and gas from the Haradh field in southern Ghawar to Abqaiq in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province.

Harald Fuchs

Harald Fuchs is a German physicist and nanoscientist, professor emeritus at the University of Münster, who co-founded its Center for Nanotechnology and researches scanning probe microscopy.

Harald gas field

Harald is a gas and condensate field in the Danish sector of the North Sea, producing since 1997 and operated by TotalEnergies through the Tyra hub.

Harald Haas

Harald Haas is an engineer who coined the term LiFi for wireless communication using modulated light, co-founded pureLiFi, and became Van Eck Professor of Engineering at Cambridge in 2024.

Harald T. Friis

Harald T. Friis (1893–1976) was a Danish-born American electrical engineer at Bell Labs known for the Friis transmission equation, the noise figure definition, and his cascade formulas.

Harald Weinfurter

Harald Weinfurter is an experimental quantum physicist and professor at LMU Munich since 1999, known for early quantum teleportation, device-independent quantum key distribution, and long-distance entanglement of atoms.

Haramachi power station

Haramachi power station, also called Haramachi Thermal Power Station, is a 2,000 MW coal-fired power station in Fukushima, Japan, rebuilt after severe tsunami damage in 2011.

Harappan architecture

Harappan architecture, also known as Indus Valley Civilization architecture, is the Bronze Age building tradition of cities like Mohenjo-daro, with standardized bricks, cardinal-oriented streets, private wells, and covered drains.

Harbaqa Dam

The Harbaqa Dam (سد خربقة, also spelled Kharbaqa) is a large ancient gravity dam in the Syrian Desert that supplied the Umayyad palace of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi.

Harbin Y-12 (运-12)

The Harbin Y-12 (运-12), also designated HAMC Y-12, is a Chinese twin-turboprop STOL utility transport seating 17 to 19 passengers, the first Chinese civil aircraft certified to international standards.

Harbin Z-19

The Harbin Z-19 (WZ-19) is a Chinese light armed-reconnaissance and attack helicopter developed by Harbin from the Z-9, serving alongside the heavier Z-10 in the People's Liberation Army.

Harbin Z-21 (直-21)

The Harbin Z-21 (直-21) is an unofficial designation for a Chinese heavy attack helicopter derived from the Z-20 transport, first photographed in flight testing in 2024.

Harbin Z-9 (直-9)

The Harbin Z-9 (直-9), NATO name Haitun, is a Chinese light utility helicopter based on the licensed Aérospatiale Dauphin, first flown in 1981 and built in over 200 units.

Harbin-1 power station

Harbin-1 power station (华电哈尔滨热电厂), also known as Huadian Harbin-1, is an operating coal-fired power and heating station of at least 950 MW in the Xiangfang District of Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.

Harbin-3 power station

Harbin-3 power station (哈尔滨第三发电厂), also called Harbin No.3 Power Plant, is a coal-fired cogeneration plant in Hulan District, Harbin, China, owned by Huadian Energy and rated at 1,600 MW.

Harbor (container registry)

Harbor is an open source cloud native registry that stores, signs, and scans container images and OCI artifacts, created at VMware and donated to the CNCF in 2018.

Harbor Freight Tools

Harbor Freight Tools, also known as Harbor Freight, is a privately held American discount tool and equipment retailer founded in 1977, headquartered in Calabasas, California.

Harbor master

A harbor master is the official responsible for managing the safe movement of shipping within a port and its approaches, covering pilotage, berth allocation, emergency response, and pollution control under titles such as Port Captain.

Harbor Point (Boston)

Harbor Point is a mixed-income residential community of 1,283 apartments on Columbia Point in Dorchester, Boston, built on the site of the failing Columbia Point public housing project.

Harbour Air

Harbour Air, also known as Harbour Air Seaplanes, is a Canadian seaplane airline based in Richmond, British Columbia, founded in 1982, carrying roughly 500,000 passengers a year.

Harbour Energy

Harbour Energy is a London-listed oil and gas producer headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, founded in 2014 and turned into one of the world's largest independents by its 2024 acquisition of Wintershall Dea's upstream portfolio.

Harbour line (Mumbai Suburban Railway)

The Harbour line is a suburban railway corridor of the Mumbai Suburban Railway, running from CSMT to Vadala Road and branching to Goregaon and Panvel, serving 25 stations.