A fierce man who made his own robot that cuts hair fully automatically appeared, and when you actually cut your hair, it looks like this



In response to the global epidemic of the new coronavirus, it is recommended in each country to keep a distance of 2 to 3 meters from others as a 'social distance'. However, when cutting hair, you must be close to a barber or cosmetologist, and you cannot avoid close contact because you can touch your hair and face.

Therefore, the YouTube channel Stuff Made Here , which DIYs various things, has developed a robot that cuts its own hair fully automatically and released it in a movie.

I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors --YouTube


This is a fully automatic haircut robot. It looks like a large table with one robot arm.



A shape in which the neck is thrust into a large hole in the base and the hair is cut. The robot arm rotates around the circumference and moves.



In addition, the robot arm moves back and forth and left and right, and the angle can be adjusted.



The tip of the robot arm looks like this.



When a barber cuts hair, he scoops up the part of the hair that he wants to cut with his fingers, attaches a star to the length of the hair to be cut, and then inserts scissors.



First, in order to reproduce the action of 'pinching the hair with your fingers', a mechanism was devised to pinch the hair using two combs.



However, depending on the nature of the hair, it is easy to get entangled, so it became a style to sandwich it with silicon parts.



In addition, the action of 'scooping up the pinched hair' is a solution that 'the robot arm with the pinched hair moves directly and lifts it', the hair is pulled up by the power of the machine, so suck it with vacuum and pinch it. The method of scooping up the hair without difficulty was adopted.



By using an aspirator, not only does it lift the hair, but it also sucks in the cut hair as it is.



Then cut the hair with the scissors attached to the robot arm.



With my hair in between ...



Suck up ...



Cut



This makes it possible for the robot arm to 'cut hair automatically', but in the first place, in order to 'grab the hair in the right place', it is necessary to recognize the hair. If you can't recognize your hair, a robot arm with scissors can bite your eyes.



Therefore, attach a camera with a depth sensor to the front of the robot.



Then, the photographer's face will be scanned in 3D like this. The hair part is recognized based on this data.



That's why the creator himself tries to cut hair with a robot.



Select the hairstyle you want to cut. This time, select the hairstyle at the bottom right.



Press the enter key to start cutting.



cutting sound



It's true that the robot arm works as planned, but it's not as brilliant as a professional barber would show.



Perhaps the scissors I'm wearing aren't sharp enough, I can feel the sharpness.



Still, you can see that the hair is getting shorter and shorter.



It looks like this after the cut. It's a little different from the hairstyle I specified, but it gave me a pretty refreshing impression, and the result was that I couldn't even notice that the robot had cut it.

in Hardware,   Video, Posted by log1i_yk