Coded for glamour and glory, AI make-up arm steals the show in Hong Kong hackathon
Imagine a woman sitting at her vanity as a robotic arm reaches across the table, picks up her lipstick, and applies it to her lips while running through her morning schedule. Meet Iron Bestie, a personalised make-up assistant that just snatched top honours at what organisers billed as Hong Kong’s first physical artificial intelligence hackathon, beating more than 160 global competitors in an intense 48-hour hardware-meets-software sprint this week. Powered by vision-language models and voice...
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Published: 6 August 2026
Source: SCMP Tech (HK/CN)
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 7 August 2026
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ethics.ai (6 August 2026), “Coded for glamour and glory, AI make-up arm steals the show in Hong Kong hackathon,” evidence record 17296, https://ethics.ai/record/17296 (originally published by SCMP Tech (HK/CN)).
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