See how this brave inventor cuts his hair, but he is a robot with scissors.
Video screenshot by Bonnie Burton / CNET
With COVID-19 quarantine preventing us from seeing our favorite hairdressers and hairdressers, some of us have to try cut our own hair with mixed results A talented inventor was so fed up with his hairy hair that he decided to build a robot to cut it.
“My hair is getting too long, so I decided to build a robot to cut it by myself,” inventor Shane Wighton, from the YouTube channel Stuff Made Here, wrote in his video description.
The robot uses a computer program that gives a person different options of haircut styles. The robot scissors are attached to an adjustable lever that rotates around the human’s head.
As a safety measure, the robot measures the distance between the hair it wants to cut from the scalp. Due to this, the robot was unable to cut close to Wighton’s ears. Better safe than becoming Vincent Von Gogh, I suppose.
Then a bit like the famous Flowbee haircut machine from the 80s, a vacuum cleaner inside the robot sucks the hair, which is adjusted, then select the part of the hair to be cut. Then the scissors attached to the robot cut the hair.
The final results are interesting. Wighton’s haircut isn’t great, but it’s not terrible either. The only other downside to your robot is that it apparently takes much longer to cut your hair than a human barber. But that doesn’t stop Wighton from building another barber robot to “explore some of the craziest haircut concepts.”
“The possibilities for this … machine are endless, and the most interesting things are haircuts that are too difficult for human hair cutters to achieve,” Wighton wrote. “Imagine a mathematically perfect fade from one side of your head to the other. Or imagine if I added a trimmer to this and cutting a perfect lithophane pattern into your hair.”
If you want ideas for a more dangerous haircut experience, watch this video from YouTuber and the inventor of robots Simone giertzwho built a Drone to cut hair.
YouTuber Roman Atwood also built an even scarier drone barber who was basically just a Flying drone with an electric razor. Oh!
