Tianyuan Garments Company is redefining apparel manufacturing with its newest employees—sewbots. On Friday, the Chinese clothing manufacturer announced that it will open a new garment factory in Arkansas next year, which will run primarily with the use of autonomous robots and a few human supervisors, Fast Company reported .
Once factory operations are in full swing, the 21 production lines are expected to produce 1.2 million T-shirts annually, at a total production cost that’s competitive with apparel companies using low-wage countries to manufacture garments. Tianyuan Garments Company is one of the first businesses to use the sewbots, which could advance […]
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