Micro-robot gripper design for lashes

Abstract

A system for applying eyelashes, the system including a first micro-robot, including a first plurality of magnets, and a wire comb, wherein the wire comb includes an attachment end, and a second micro-robot, including a second plurality of magnets, a tube configured to accept the wire comb, and a gripper configured to secure and release an eyelash. Further, A method of applying eyelashes, including securing a first micro-robot having a wire comb to a first location, sliding a second micro-robot along the wire comb with a tube so that a gripper of the second micro-robot contacts an attachment end of the wire comb, gripping an eyelash between the gripper and the attachment end, positioning the first microrobot and the second micro-robot to apply the eyelash, retracting the gripper from the attachment end, and applying the eyelash.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.