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A new t-shirt sewing robot can make as many shirts per hour as 17 workers(2017)

• Animats 6y ago
  "ATTENTION: We sincerely appreciate your interest. We are currently not taking orders till July 2022."[1] Handling fabric automatically remains difficult. One company, Sewbo, took a straightforward approach - they starch the fabric before sewing, handle it as a mostly rigid object, then give it a light rinse after assembly.[2] Chicago Dryer is able to handle sheets, towels, and work shirts if a human feeds in the first edge.[3] Once they grab some part of a flat surface, the machines can take it from there. The home folding machine people from 2019 are still stuck at "sign up for our waitlist". And, like the industrial scale Chicago Dryer machines, someone has to feed in a leading edge to get it started. Robots are not cost-effective against labor in Bangladesh, world leader in T-shirts. There's already much mechanization. If you watch videos of that, mostly what people are doing is grabbing an edge of something and feeding it into a machine that does the rest. It's doing that first grab cheaply that's the unsolved problem. [1] https://softwearautomation.com/tech-packs/ https://softwearautomation.com/tech-packs/ [2] https://player.vimeo.com/video/158544539 https://player.vimeo.com/video/158544539 [3] https://youtu.be/7bd900ehE9M https://youtu.be/7bd900ehE9M [4] https://foldimate.com/ https://foldimate.com/