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A new t-shirt sewing robot can make as many shirts per hour as 17 factory workers
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Aug 31, 2017 01:54pm |
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| Author | Marc Bain |
| News Date | Wednesday, August 30, 2017 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | In 2015, after years of research, SoftWear Automation introduced LOWRY, a sewing robot, or sewbot, that uses machine vision to spot and adjust to distortions in the fabric. Though initially only able to make simple products, such as bath mats, the technology is now advanced enough to make whole t-shirts and much of a pair of jeans. According to the company, it also does it far faster than a human sewing line.
SoftWear Automation’s big selling point is that one of its robotic sewing lines can replace a conventional line of 10 workers and produce about 1,142 t-shirts in an eight-hour period, compared to just 669 for the human sewing line. Another way to look at it is that the robot, working under the guidance of a single human handler, can make as many shirts per hour as about 17 humans. |
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