Chinese apparel company Tianyuan Garments Co. plans to open a $20 million factory in Little Rock, using 330 robots from U.S.-based robotics company Softwear Automation. Tianyuan — which supplies apparel to Adidas, Armani and Reebok — will produce t-shirts at the new factory for a cost of 33¢ per shirt. The “sewbots” used can produce…
Headlights That See Through Rain; A Robotic Seamstress
By Frank Tobe, Editor/Publisher, The Robot Report Normally I don’t write about scientific breakthroughs that may or may not turn into commercial products. But these two are sure winners and I wanted to share them with you. Headlights That See Through Rain Graphic courtesy of Carnegie Mellon Illumination and Imaging Lab. A while back the…