Machines dreamed up in a one-story industrial building on Atlanta’s gentrifying Westside will soon begin churning out more than a million T-shirts yearly on American soil.
Up to 24 Sewbots, as they are called, will each spit out a shirt untouched by human hands about every 30 seconds in a new factory.
The fully automated assembly line is a closely watched advance in the U.S. textile industry, taking the final step of turning workers into tenders of a machine that makes the complete product.It turns out the U.S. holds advantages for Suzhou Tian Yuan Garments Co, the Chinese owner of the […]
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