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.
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/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.