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  "id": 17296,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363197/coded-glamour-and-glory-ai-make-arm-steals-show-hong-kong-hackathon",
  "title": "Coded for glamour and glory, AI make-up arm steals the show in Hong Kong hackathon",
  "summary": "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...",
  "authors": "Richard Chen",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-06T13:30:08.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17296",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363197/coded-glamour-and-glory-ai-make-arm-steals-show-hong-kong-hackathon",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}