One of my first hardware|software projects was a hair cutting robot, that was the early 1980s.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=V1l3QgAACAAJ

https://www.elizabethsbookshop.com.au/shop/fauna-and-flora/a...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZAh2zv7TMM