24 Fingered Robot Massages Your Head While Washing Your Hair
Robots are usually designed to be helpful, but sometimes we
can't help but wonder if they're making us lazy. Such is the
case with a robot out of Japan that can wash your hair for you.
With Panasonic's robot, you simply lean back in a chair over a
basin, and in three minutes the magic fingers will shampoo,
massage and rinse your head--five minutes it you add conditioner
and a blow dry.  As weird as a hair-washing robot sounds, this
is not Panasonic's first delve into the hair-washing industry--
last year, it produced a robot for giving your hair a thorough
clean. The difference in this one is mainly that it has 24
robotic fingers instead of 16. This robot isn't just an excuse
to be lazy, though; it's designed to help elderly or handicapped
care for themselves, by washing in any way human fingers can
too.  Panasonicplans on selling these robot guides to consumers
sometime next year, but there's no indication of how much
they'll cost or when they'll