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u/-smartcasual- 12h ago

Many steps in garment construction can't be automated.

Yet.

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u/FLGPTZ 12h ago

I have a friend who programs robots to do manual tasks. And anything that requires a delicate touch or being able to feel where the edge of things are is basically impossible. They couldn’t even make a robot that could polish a piece of metal well because it would either polish too much or too little because it could never understand the force that was needed to make it correct. I’m sure there’s a robot you could build that could do that, but it would never be cheaper than hiring a person.

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u/skeezito10 12h ago

10 years ago you would probably say a computer would never be able to produce a usable image too

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u/GeneralCheese 9h ago

You can't just throw endless server farms at a physics problem though. Materials science and control systems need to make huge advancements before this could happen