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Inventor Builds Functioning Haircutting Robot

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:22PM   
from the flowbees-still-exist? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for FatPhil:

Inventor Builds Functioning Haircutting Robot - Nerdist:

We all have a special relationship with our personal barber or hairstylist. There's a certain level of trust and intimacy required to let someone consistently operate sharp instruments near our head and face. However, a global pandemic made us realize they are truly among the most important people in our lives. We need them. We. Need. Them. And one man's ingenious invention has proven just how true that is. He built an impressive, complicated machine that gives haircuts. But the insane amount of work required to build one isn't the main reason it's inferior to an actual human. Nor is it the obvious safety issues and incomplete haircut it provides. It's not even the fact that it's basically an advanced Flowbee.

It's the impersonal small talk.

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Original Submission

• Re:Most important people? (Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Monday July 27 2020, @09:18PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Monday July 27 2020, @09:18PM (#1027310) Journal

  The person who cuts your hair is one of the most important people in your life? You need them?

  Umm, no. Just no.

  Whelp, I wasn't out protesting the fact I couldn't see mine a few weeks ago.

  That was the long-ago, though, back when protesting was some kind of right we Americans have.

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