In the News – Hair-Washing Robot

Snippet from the article:

It may look like a glorified salon chair, but a new Japanese hair-washing robot replicates the dexterous touch of a human hand to care for the locks of the elderly and the infirm.

Its creators at electronics firm Panasonic say the machine features the latest robotic technology and could help replace human care-givers in this rapidly ageing nation without degrading the quality of the service.

“Using robotic hand technology and 24 robotic fingers, this robot can wash the hair or handicapped in the way human hands do in order to help them have better daily lives,” said developer Tohru Nakamura.

Read the rest (and with a larger photo) — With 24 fingers, Japan robot washes hair

I dream of having my hair worked on all of the time, so I’d want one just to have a robot massage my scalp every day. Now, if it would scratch my back with some of those extra fingers… wow, a fantasy come true.