3 hours Ago By Coco Feng
A hair-washing robot, which has attracted widespread attention in southern China, will enter the Hong Kong market in June, according to its maker. Faxiaoka AI Hair Care, which runs roughly 40 stores in the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Fujian and Hunan, offers innovative hair-washing services that can also examine hair quality and skin health. The machine consists of a massage table with electronic massagers and a helmet-shaped module at one end for washing hair.
Inside the module are high-pressure water tubes that can wash hair from all directions. There is also a therapy system inside the helmet, which uses low-level wavelengths of red light to help treat skin conditions. The basic package, which costs less than 20 yuan (US$2.
70), lasted about 16 minutes, according to a Post reporter’s experience in mid-April in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province. However, the machine is not able to dry hair. Customers must sit on a separate chair to dry their hair themselves or have a shop assistant do it.
It was not fully automatic either, as it required the assistant to start the machine and adjust the temperature and strength based on the customer’s requests. The team is working on a second-generation system that would add a drying function. It would also allow users to start the machine by scanning a QR code with a smartphone.
The new system would be ready in June, said He Qiufeng, founder and chairwoman of Guangdong Sheng Tai Health Technology Group, which owns the Faxiaoka brand..
