With aging, human skin develops a dry condition called senile xerosis. The skin lesion can be prevented by daily skin care, for example, by applying an ointment containing moisturing factors several times in a day. Aged persons, however, have difficulties in accessing their back and rely therefore on nursing care for such treatment. But note that in underpopulated areas such nursing care may not always be available. To tackle this problem, a skincare robot has been proposed in our previous work. In this paper, a prototype of the skincare robot is introduced. In addition, fundamental experiments are executed to confirm its validity.
