Shane Wighton, the engineer behind Stuff Made Here and whose basketball backboard makes it virtually impossible to miss a hoop, has now built a robot to cut his hair, with varying results. This isn’t the first time somebody’s tried this, but it caught my attention because haircutting is often used to showcase complex automation.

肖恩·怀顿(Shane Wighton)是Stuff Made Here的幕后工程师，他的篮球篮板几乎使人不会错过篮筐，现在他已经建立了一个自动剪发的机器人 ，效果各不相同。 这不是第一次有人尝试这种方法 ，但是它引起了我的注意，因为理发通常用于展示复杂的自动化功能 。

My hairdresser always tells me that a hairdresser’s is a good business to be in, mainly because hair never stops growing (until it does), but above all, because of the low costs of supplies, the relatively low price of labour, and the unlikelihood of automation. Training a hairdresser, although obviously requiring time and dedication, is not particularly complex: there is no shortage of hairdressers, although as in many other professions, it is possible there aren’t enough good hairdressers to go around.

我的美发师总是告诉我，从事美发师是一件好事，主要是因为头发永远不会停止生长(直到它长大为止)，但最重要的是，由于供应成本低，劳动力价格相对较低以及不太可能自动化。 培训美发师虽然显然需要时间和奉献精神，但并不是特别复杂：美发师并不短缺，尽管像许多其他职业一样，可能没有足够的优秀美发师来做。

In any case, Shane’s not interested in putting the world’s hairdressers out of work, and instead cutting your hair without having to involve a hairdresser, a profession suddenly turned into a risky activity due to the need for proximity to clients and the difficulty, in many cases, of maintaining safety measures — especially when shaving or beard trimming.

在任何情况下，Shane都不愿意让世界各地的美发师失业，而是不必让美发师陪伴就剪头发，由于需要与客户保持亲密关系和许多困难，该职业突然变成了冒险活动在维护安全措施的情况下，尤其是剃须或胡须修剪时。

Shane also wanted a classic scissor cut, not a razor trim, as in the other examples I have found, and consequently, he designed a whole suction system that on the one hand prevented most of cut hair from falling to the floor and, on the other, allowed him to hold the hair to operate the scissors strand by strand (again, the results leave something to be desired).

Shane还想要经典的剪刀剪，而不是剃刀修剪，就像我发现的其他示例一样，因此，他设计了一个完整的吸尘系统，一方面可以防止大部分剪发掉落到地板上，另一方面其他，让他握住头发来一头一头地操作剪刀(再次，结果令人不满意)。

His attempt allows for further reflection on the future of work in the face of advanced automation: Shane’s machine uses computer vision and various sensors to know where and what to cut, offers a menu from which to choose the style of cut, and with the right settings and more iterations, it is not difficult to imagine it as a future alternative for a profession that has traditionally considered to be protected from automation. On the other hand, the prospect of a robot using scissors near your face and head is not exactly reassuring, at least until you’ve tried it a few times.

他的尝试使面对高级自动化的工作的未来有了进一步的思考：Shane的机器使用计算机视觉和各种传感器来了解切割的位置和内容，并提供菜单供您选择切割样式，并选择合适的切割方式。设置和更多的迭代，不难想象它是传统上被认为不受自动化保护的行业的未来替代方案。 另一方面，至少在您尝试了几次之后，机器人在您的脸部和头部附近使用剪刀的前景并不完全令人放心。

Where is all this taking us? Is the idea to eliminate the cost of the hairdresser, reduce the risk of transmitting a respiratory disease, versatility, a more precise cut, or will, as my hairdresser of many years insists, hairdressing resist automation. Do you see yourself getting your hair cut by a robot?

这一切带我们去哪里？ 消除美发师成本，降低传播呼吸道疾病的风险，多功能性，更精确的剪裁的想法是，或者像我多年的美发师所坚持的那样，美发师会拒绝自动化。 您看到自己被机器人剪头发了吗？

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