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With ever growing attention of medical community on the usage of surgical simulators as effective training means, development of robust and cost-effective haptic tool interfaces is very much necessary. We have developed such tool interfaces that can be easily plugged to PHANTOM® Omni™. Besides simulating actual tools in operating room, they are cost-effective and are easy to build.