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Hair-Transplant Robot Shows How Humans and Machines Will Work Together

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday September 07 2014, @05:07AM   
from the robot-friends dept.

tt0093177 writes:

In the field of hair replacement, horror stories of botched surgeries abound — it’s not hard to find tales of bleeding, swelling, scars and the like. But a human-robot hybrid has arisen in an effort to improve the situation. In 2011, Restoration Robotics got approval from the U.S. Federal Drug Administration to begin commercial operations with its Artas System, which uses digital imaging and a robotic arm to help with the hair transplant procedure.

There is a video of the system in operation, it isn't quite as cool as the Bishop knife-trick scene in Aliens, but it is getting there.

Now if only they could kill two birds with one stone by automating a beard-to-scalp transplant so I could get my hair back and never have to worry about shaving again.

• Blasphemy! Blasphemy! (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 07 2014, @05:13AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 07 2014, @05:13AM (#90421)

  "Now if only they could kill two birds with one stone by automating a beard-to-scalp transplant so I could get my hair back and never have to worry about shaving again."

  With an attitude like that you'll never reach Elder-Neckbeard status!

  • Re:Blasphemy! (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 07 2014, @05:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 07 2014, @05:35AM (#90422)

    > With an attitude like that you'll never reach Elder-Neckbeard status!

    Elder Headbeard FTW!

    Parent

• Thumbs up (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 07 2014, @06:19AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 07 2014, @06:19AM (#90428)

  This is the most whack story posted on SN or SD.

• Sewing machine (Score: 1) by pkrasimirov on Sunday September 07 2014, @07:16AM

  by pkrasimirov (3358) on Sunday September 07 2014, @07:16AM (#90441)

  I can imagine what it will look like when things get up to speed.

• Beard-to-Scalp? (Score: 1) by jbWolf on Sunday September 07 2014, @08:05AM

  by jbWolf (2774) <reversethis-{moc.flow-bj} {ta} {bj}> on Sunday September 07 2014, @08:05AM (#90446) Homepage

  Now if only they could kill two birds with one stone by automating a beard-to-scalp transplant so I could get my hair back and never have to worry about shaving again.

  I'd rather shave my face than the other hard-to-reach places where hair growth has become more prominent as I've gotten older.

  --
  www.jb-wolf.com [jb-wolf.com]

• Summary written by Kevin Warwick? (Score: 4, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday September 07 2014, @08:51AM

  by wonkey_monkey (279) on Sunday September 07 2014, @08:51AM (#90451) Homepage

  a human-robot hybrid

  Why, that's not hyperbole at all.

  --
  systemd is Roko's Basilisk

• Killing two beards with one stone (Score: 2) by jimshatt on Sunday September 07 2014, @11:44AM

  by jimshatt (978) on Sunday September 07 2014, @11:44AM (#90466) Journal

  "Now if only they could kill two birds with one stone by automating a beard-to-scalp transplant so I could get my hair back and never have to worry about shaving again."
  You mean, like this [wordpress.com]?

• Idiocracy coming true? (Score: 1) by Murdoc on Wednesday September 10 2014, @12:26PM

  by Murdoc (2518) on Wednesday September 10 2014, @12:26PM (#91639)

  "The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections."
  Apparently this applies to robotics as well.