History of Robotics Research and Development of Japan2010BusinessHead-care Robot

People want both physical and psychological relaxation. Head-care and hair washing are essential ways not only to become clean but also to relax. Head-cares provides such benefits as a clean scalp, clean hair, increased blood flow, improved scalp function, and stimulated mental states. Head-care is commonly conducted in barber shops, beauty salons, and care and massaging facilities. On the other hand, providing proper head care greatly burdens its practitioners, causing back pain and chapped hands. In care facilities, due to burden and business, the frequency of head care is lower than expected. Based on our robotics technology, we have been developing an original head-care robot to make users more comfortable. Our head-care robot can wash the scalp with its fingers and provide a rich lather of shampoo in addition to a stream of water. This allows the head-care robot to provide feelings of much relaxation, to wash hair cleanly, and to reduce water consumption to about 15 liters per shampoo. In current stressful society, the head-care robot has possibility to propose comfort and relaxation effect. Our head-care robot, W 810×H 1045×D 723 mm and weighing 100 kg, gently touches the head and thoroughly washes it with a rich lather of shampoo. It performed the following head care sequence: pre-washing, shampooing, rinsing, conditioning, massaging, washing, and drying. It lathers the shampoo well, massages the scalp with its fingers, and produces clean and comfortable feelings like a beautician. Our head-care robot consists of two main parts: right and left swing arm units that massage the front and top regions of the head and a rear unit that cleans its back. The swing arm unit is composed of a pressing arm and an end effecter that is attached at its tip. The end effecter part, which touches and washes the scalp and the hair, is composed of eight human-like elastic fingers.

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