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Robot brushes hair to help with patient care

This robot brushes hair

which could help with automating patient care

Courtesy: MIT CSAIL

The robotic arm setup has a sensorized brush

equipped with a camera to "see" and assess curliness

allowing the system to plan a delicate and time-efficient brush-out

It's developed by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

and Harvard University's Soft Math Lab