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You are seriously underestimating the difficulty of producing the hardware you're envisioning. Have you gotten input from roboticists and industrial designers?
by buss 11y ago
You are seriously underestimating the difficulty of producing the hardware you're envisioning.
Have you gotten input from roboticists and industrial designers?
Consider applying lipstick. You'll need a real-time high resolution scan of the person's face (you can't just take a single scan and be done with it, a human is never still), be able to accurately find the lips and their borders, have an articulated robotic arm, grasp the lipstick, have enough of the lipstick out to apply without breaking, apply the right amount of pressure, and finally follow a constantly moving contour on a person's face.
You could probably do blush with an airbrush, but you couldn't do a base or concealer because you'll have to brush or smear that on and you're back to following contours with an articulated arm.
I just don't believe the necessary technology exists for this to do it in a consumer device for less than several hundred thousand dollars.
- joyeuse6701 11y agoPerhaps you're right. Though I think the hardware you may be envisioning is different from ours. In the consideration for lipstick application, this device isn't meant to be a robotic copy of a human arm applying various cosmetics a la the jettisons. The goal is to provide makeup application: general cosmetics to specific regions of the face in a given order. From this you can develop cosmetics that can be applied via airbrush and perhaps another applicator (gel, or inkjet) that render this effect. One does not need to stick to conventional solid lipstick nor it's means of application to achieve the desired look of red upon lips. Granted there is mention of kinematics which implies robotic arms and that design path is still a consideration, but recently we have trended towards a means of application via a moveable applicator head attached to rails and guides similar to 3D printing. As provided in previous links, airbrush is already used for applying foundation, lips, eyeshadow and blush. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbrush_makeup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbrush_makeup