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I'm wondering why garment production wasn't automated years ago.

• kasey_junk 10y ago
  Lots of it is, but a big driver for why automating garment work being more costly than other kinds of automation is soft things, like cloth, are harder to deal with consistently than hard things like metal. It folds and distorts in shape in much less normal patterns, requiring more sophisticated algorithms.
• aaron695 10y ago
  It's really hard http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21651925-robotic-sewing-machine-could-throw-garment-workers-low-cost-countries-out http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21651925-...