It takes most people years to land on a signature look. Yinka Ogunbiyi solidified box braids as hers when she was just five years old. That’s pretty early to settle on a beauty uniform, yes, but as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo credit: Adobe Stock) Halo Braid, winner of the 2025 President's Innovation Challenge Award at the Harvard Innovation Lab, ...

Yinka Ogunbiyi successfully raised funding for her innovative device, set to revolutionize the professional hair-braiding industry. In 2025, Ogunbiyi, a biomedical engineer holding a bachelor’s, a ...

HaloBraid raised $7M from Seven Seven Six to build a robotic braiding assistant for salons, launching later this year. HaloBraid, a robotics startup that builds an automated braiding assistant for ...

A groundbreaking AI-assisted hair braiding solution, HaloBraid, has raised $7 million to bring its innovative technology to ...

5,000 Years In The Making — Harvard Alum Yinka Ogunbiyi Is Disrupting The $42B Hair Industry With A Robot That Braids Hair Halo Braid, a machine learning–powered braiding device by Harvard alumna ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The AI-powered braiding robot ...

Nigerian-American biomechanical engineer Yinka Ogunbiyi is drawing global attention after raising $7 million in seed funding to commercialise HaloBraid, a robotic braiding assistant designed to help ...

HaloBraid aims to cut braid appointments in half, ease the physical toll on stylists, and give Black women back their precious time. When Janet Jackson starred alongside Tupac Shakur in the 1993 cult ...

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 ...