Robotic Hair Harvesting System: A New Proposal
January 2011
in “
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
”
Studysummary This study presented a hair harvesting robot with an advanced end-effector that improves accuracy and efficiency for Follicular Unit Extraction, showing a precision of 0.014 mm.
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In 2011, a team of researchers proposed a robotic system for hair harvesting, aimed at improving the Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) method used for treating male-pattern baldness. The traditional FUE method, which involves manually harvesting hairs one by one, was considered tedious and time-consuming. The proposed robot was designed with an efficient end-effector, comprising a digital microscope and a punch device. The microscope was used to automatically locate target hairs, guiding the punch device for harvesting. The end-effector demonstrated an average bias and precision of 0.014 mm due to a rotary guidance design for the motorized shifting mechanism.
