Videos: Panasonic's Hair-Washing Robot In Action

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Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Last week, we asked you if you would trust Panasonic’s new 16-fingered robot that you can see above and that’s supposedly able to wash the hair of a human being. If you were undecided about this question back then, we can help you now with two videos that appeared online just today.

What I find suspicious (or slightly disturbing) is that during this public demonstration of the robot, Panasonic didn’t let it wash the hair of a human being but that of a dummy.

Anyway, here’s the first video:

In this second video, you can see the robot shampooing/washing the dummy’s hair:

Via NODE [JP]

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