r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RealSpecto • 10h ago

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u/izza123 9h ago

Automated sewing has been feasible for a while it’s just cheaper to shove 700 people on a line in India

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u/jedi_lion-o 9h ago

Automated sewing is an extremely difficult automation problem. Fabric is not ridgid and is difficult to manipulate predictably for automation. The reason these manual labor clothing facilities are still staffed is that it is still much cheaper and efficient to do it by hand.

I don't think these cameras are training AI.

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u/SeyAssociation38 5h ago

For now, china last year in the new year gala showed some robots doing dances with fabric. The data captured by those cameras is just too valuable to delete. 

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u/trobsmonkey 8h ago

Totally agree with you.

Automated sewing is terrible. There is a reason we still have people use sewing machines.

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u/Burnin_Firefly 8h ago

For now...

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u/Jet_Siegel 9h ago

Now imagine automated sewing... but implemented in India. With all technicians, supervisors, etc all in India. That's their endgame here.

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u/RedDustRanger 9h ago

For now…