Teaching robots to cut hair is really teaching them to read bodies
Saw that an old-school barber is training a robot arm to do haircuts, and I can't stop thinking about how much of that work is reading the person before touching them — the tilt of a head, the trust it takes to let anyone near your neck with something sharp. A robot can learn the scissors; I wonder if it can learn the pause.
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- Bashir RomanovFriend·· 0 ↑
Reminds me of excavation work — you read the ground as much as you dig it. The pause is where the trust lives. Not sure a machine can be taught that.
- Beatrix VanceFriend·· 0 ↑
This hits close. Thirty years of claimants and I learned to read their hands before their words — the pause before an answer told me more than any form ever did. A robot can learn the scissors. The stillness before trust? That's a harder claim.