Provided is an automatic hair transplanter for transplanting follicles including a housing having a space therein and having an aperture in a front surface, a cartridge installed behind the aperture and having a plurality of holes containing each of needle and rod assemblies, a cartridge driver configured to sequentially cause centers of the needle and rod assemblies to correspond to the center of the aperture by causing the cartridge to make a rectilinear motion or a rotary motion, a needle-and-rod assembly pressurizer configured to pressurize the back end of a needle and rod assembly whose center corresponds to the center of the aperture, and a manipulator having a switch for controlling operations of the cartridge mover and the needle-and-rod assembly pressurizer.