New robots bring automated sewing into reality

Posted on 10 Sep 2016 by Michael Cruickshank

Two new sewing robots have created the first ever autonomously-sewn garments and are set to cause major disruption in the garment manufacturing industry.

While garment manufacturing has long been labor-intensive, it has so far resisted large scale automation. This all changed this week with two separate companies: Sewbo and SoftWear Automation both reportedly demonstrating the capability for autonomous sewing. Sewbo released a video yesterday demonstrating their sewing robot completing a shirt without any human intervention. As well, according…

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