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Popular Mechanics “This Automated Sewing Robot Can Make Shirts Basically By Itself”

An assembly line can do a lot to boost efficiency, but what if the assembly line could do basically all the work itself. SoftWear Automation’s LOWRY, a sewing robot, does

Apparel Views: Sewbots Filling Automation Gap

Making clothes has always been a labour-intensive activity. The industrial revolution mechanised and automated textile production in the 18th century, whilst the invention of the sewing machine in the following

Materials World: Spotlight Automated Sewing

Palaniswamy ‘Raj’ Rajan, CEO of SoftWear, USA, talks to Ellis Davies about the company’s Sewbots and automated worklines. Tell me about the company and your role at SoftWear. SoftWear Automation

ZDNET: Made in the USA by Robots

Atlanta-based robotics startup SoftWear Automation makes “Sewbots” that use patented computer vision systems to view fabric more accurately than the human eye so that every stitch is perfect. These robots

Glossy: The Rise of Robotics in Retail

It takes ten steps from start to finish to cut and sew a basic T-shirt. In regard to manual labor, that’s a breeze, considering cutting and sewing a traditional dress

Financial Times: Stitched by Robots

This may be about to change. In a former cabinet-making factory in Atlanta, a group of Softwear Automation technicians are huddled around touch-screens punching in computer code as they try

Forbes: How Being Turned Down Helped A Startup

For Palaniswamy “Raj” Rajan, SoftWear’s sink-or-swim moment came in late 2016 when the startup presented its SEWBOTS robotic sewing technology to one of the largest bath-rug makers in the country.

Printwear Magazine: SoftWear Secures $4.5 Million

With SoftWear’s innovations, Rajan adds, the company aims to bring the supply chain in-house, eliminating the need for excess warehousing. “You don’t have to maintain a lot of inventory, you

Innovation in Textiles: Filling the Automation Gap

An Atlanta, US, based brand SoftWear Automation, launched in 2012, aims to change this by creating autonomous ‘sewn good’ worklines for home goods, footwear, and automotive sectors. With its patented

Bloomberg: This Economic Model Organized Asia for Decades

A group of Georgia Tech engineering and robotics professors founded a startup called SoftWear Automation there in 2007, with the goal of overcoming the difficulties machines have in picking up