If you’re a Black woman trying to get a silk press or God forbid…your hair braided, you are caught up in a time-consuming and mentally taxing experience. Clients are thrown in the chaos of overbooked ...

It starts the way so many innovations do: with a problem that Black women know all too well. Hours spent in salon chairs. Sore scalps. Long waitlists. Hit-or-miss results. But what if the solution to ...

While braids are a popular, universal protective style that has myriad merits and dates back across cultures for thousands of years, getting them is a costly and lengthy process that still takes hours ...

Deemed the "Halo Braid," the braiding tool helps stylists by reducing the time needed to complete the popular style. The invention of a hair-braiding robot has won a startup competition at Harvard ...

Halo Braid, winner of the 2025 President’s Innovation Challenge Award at the Harvard Innovation Lab, has devised a hair-braiding robot. While braids are a popular, universal protective style that has ...