Your Next T-Shirt Will Be Made by a Robot

[rangerrebew]

Your Next T-Shirt Will Be Made by a Robot
Georgia Tech spin-off SoftWear Automation is developing ultrafast sewing robots that could upend the clothing industry
Posted 5 Jan 2018 | 20:00 GMT
By Erico Guizzo


Sometime later this year, dozens of robots will spring into action at a new factory in Little Rock, Ark. The plant will not make cars or electronics, nor anything else that robots are already producing these days. Instead it will make T-shirts—lots of T-shirts. When fully operational, these sewing robots will churn them out at a dizzying rate of one every 22 seconds.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/industrial-robots/your-next-tshirt-will-be-made-by-a-robot

[GtHawk]

I'll be damned, does that mean that each shirt might actually resemble all the rest?

[Oceander]

Works for me.