Jon Zornow, the founder of Sewbo, made waves in September after announcing that he had built the first robot to sew a t-shirt without human intervention. Using a robot arm and an automatic sewing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Sewbo demonstration event is held in Detroit (Reuters) - Will a robot ever make your blue jeans? There is a quiet effort ...

While robots enter other industries in herds, the assembly of garments has long been a tedious, human privilege. Now, for the first time, a robot has sewn an entire, wearable piece of garment. Sewbo, ...

The clothing industry has long been using machinery for garment-making: fabrics can be woven by machines, and then cut into pieces by computer-controlled cutting machines. But a large part of the ...

Jonathan Zornow got his big idea while watching TV. The former Seattle software developer has an unusual bedtime addiction: Binging on the Discovery Channel show How It’s Made. “[The show] just tapes ...

We've told you recently about robots that emulate the locomotion of snakes, slugs, and salamanders. But biomimetics isn't the only approach to robotic movement that engineers and designers are working ...

Telling a technologist that something can’t be done is a bit like holding the proverbial red flag to a bull. “I was watching How It’s Made, one of my favorite TV shows,” 30-year-old inventor Jonathan ...

The Financial Times reported earlier this year that one of the largest clothing manufacturers, Hong Kong-based Crystal Group, proclaimed robotics could not compete with the cost and quality of manual ...

Garments have been sewed together by humans since time immemorial, but a company called Sewbo wants to replace us with automatons. It has developed a robot that can assemble a T-shirt by simply ...

"Clothing is the last trillion-dollar industry that hasn’t been automated," said Eugen Solowjow, who heads a project at a Siemens lab in San Francisco that has worked on automating apparel ...