Abstract
Head-care (including scalp wash and hair wash) is conducted at many hospital, care facility, barber shop and beauty salon to propose not only cleanness but also relaxation to the users. However, the burden on head-care practitioner is great such as back pain and rough hands. So, we have been developing a head-care robot. Head-care robot is composed of three robot arm and totally twenty four fingers. Head-care robot not only washes the user's head and hair but also realizes high comfort by massaging the scalp. The purpose of this article is to measure the change of the scalp blood flow before and after using head-care robot to confirm its massaging function. Ten healthy participants use the head-care robot for fifteen minutes. As a result, the scalp blood flow of top and side head shortly after head-care is about 20% improved by comparing with that before head-care. In addition, the use's opinions show the possibility to improve not only scalp blood flow but also whole body blood flow.
