This Robot Will Give You A New Haircut… If You Dare

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Watch this brave inventor get his hair cut by a scissors-wielding robot.

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With [ COVID-19] preventing many of us from visiting our favorite salons and barbershops, some of us must attempt to [/health/youre-looking-shaggy-here-are-haircut-kits-you-can-get-for-as-little-as-33/ cut our own hair]�[ "My hair is getting too long so I decided to build a robot to cut it for me," Shane Wighton][ Shane Wighton] of the YouTube channel [ Stuff Made Here] wrote in the description of his [ video] that posted last week and has already been viewed over 1.7 million times.






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The robot uses a computer program that gives a person options of haircut styles. The robot's scissors are attached to an adjustable lever that rotates around the head. 

As a safety precaution, the robot measures the distance between the hair it wants to cut and the scalp. Because of this, the robot wasn't able to cut near Wighton's ears. Better safe than -- sorry, [/news/van-goghs-severed-ear-brought-back-to-life-with-science/ Vincent Von Gogh].