Coded for glamour and glory, AI make-up arm steals the show in Hong Kong hackathon

SCMP TechAugust 6, 2026en

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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