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Congrats for the technical challenge! Fortunately, getting a haircut is not so expensive everywhere. To be honest with you what you try to accomplish is a repe

Congrats for the technical challenge! Fortunately, getting a haircut is not so expensive everywhere. To be honest with you what you try to accomplish is a repeated topic of discussion in my barber shop and for the moment they seem happy not to see this kind of tech working. Where I live people go the barber shop to feel somebody is taking care of them and have a nice chat in addition to having a nice haircut. I think it's a business that tries to overcome the loneliness but I think you can compete with this if Buzz Robotics brings a kind of human touch, maybe you could make people appreciate robots after all.

magduf 7y ago
>what you try to accomplish is a repeated topic of discussion in my barber shop and for the moment they seem happy not to see this kind of tech working. Of course, just like truck drivers don't want to see self-driving trucks. That doesn't mean it's a bad idea at all, just that people don't want their job automated away. As someone who hates barbershops, I'll take a robotic barber any day. >Where I live people go the barber shop to feel somebody is taking care of them and have a nice chat in addition to having a nice haircut. If that's what they want, then they can keep going to the barbershop for that experience, and keep it in business. No one's going to force them to use the robot. >but I think you can compete with this if Buzz Robotics brings a kind of human touch The whole point of something like this is to eliminate the human touch! It's to make getting a haircut a quick, inexpensive, and automated experience, just like buying a drink from a vending machine instead of going to a shop and having it hand-made for you while you sit and chat with someone. It's entirely possible to make coffee with an automatic machine, but Starbucks doesn't seem to be hurting.

magduf 7y ago

>what you try to accomplish is a repeated topic of discussion in my barber shop and for the moment they seem happy not to see this kind of tech working. Of course, just like truck drivers don't want to see self-driving trucks. That doesn't mean it's a bad idea at all, just that people don't want their job automated away. As someone who hates barbershops, I'll take a robotic barber any day. >Where I live people go the barber shop to feel somebody is taking care of them and have a nice chat in addition to having a nice haircut. If that's what they want, then they can keep going to the barbershop for that experience, and keep it in business. No one's going to force them to use the robot. >but I think you can compete with this if Buzz Robotics brings a kind of human touch The whole point of something like this is to eliminate the human touch! It's to make getting a haircut a quick, inexpensive, and automated experience, just like buying a drink from a vending machine instead of going to a shop and having it hand-made for you while you sit and chat with someone. It's entirely possible to make coffee with an automatic machine, but Starbucks doesn't seem to be hurting.