A new robot by Sewbo could automate the feeding of fabric into sewing machines. Zornow has created a process by which a robotic arm guides chemically stiffened pieces of fabric through a commercial ...

Clothes don’t make themselves. Robots can cut, print, or dye fabrics, but they still can’t sew as well as humans, which means that every garment in your wardrobe was sewn by a pair of hands pinching ...

FBO – DARPA has provided $1.25 million for Softwear Automation to develop a complete work-cell called a Beta Unit for fully automated sewing. That includes a numerically controlled sewing machine that ...

DENHAM SPRINGS — Patrons of the Old City Hall Museum learned all about the tedious and time-consuming process of making a wearable garment in the 19th Century from “Grandmother Marguerite,” who ...

HUMAN hands are extremely good at making clothes. While many manufacturing processes have been automated, stitching together garments remains a job for millions of people around the world. As with ...

A recent study links cutting and sewing methods to the release of microfibres. Credit: Shutterstock. The research paper ‘Impact of sewing on microfiber release from polyester fabric during laundry’ ...