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TechCrunch: SoftWear Raises $4.5M to Build Sewbots

Founded by a set of Georgia Tech science professors, the company was a “response to the effects of offshoring textile and apparel manufacturing had on the US economy,” said CEO

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Just Style: Digitialisation Takes Shape

The digital pieces of the fashion supply chain puzzle are starting to come together, according to executives at the recent Texprocess apparel technology trade show in Frankfurt, Germany. And they

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Motherboard: The Case For Letting Robots Make Our Clothes

There are already several companies working to automate garment making and replace the work that people like Subash do every day. Sewbo and Softwear, both of which manufacture robots that

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Business of Fashion: The Sewbots Are Coming

The United States Department of Defense is the world’s largest employer with almost 3 million personnel, including 1.3 million men and women on active duty. That’s a lot of people.

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California Apparel News : Fashion’s Robotic Future

Robots in sewing factories won’t look like science fiction, said Palaniswamy “Raj” Rajan, chief executive officer and chairman of Softwear Automation Inc., an Atlanta company that copyrighted the word “Sewbot,” or

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Business Insider: There’s a Huge Hole in Trump’s Promise

The story of SoftWear, a sewing-automation company in Atlanta, should throw some cold water on Trump’s dreams of returning thousands of Americans to manufacturing jobs. SoftWear started with a group

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Nanalyze: 10 Startups Working on Robotics for Manufacturing

Founded in 2007, Atlanta Georgia startup SoftWear Automation has taken in a total of $3.5 million in funding so far. SoftWear’s focus is on apparel manufacturing, and the team has built sewing,

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Georgia Trend: Stitching The Future

SoftWear Automation is moving as fast as its Sewbots. The Atlanta-based company, which manufactures automated sewing machines, could end up revolutionizing the world’s garment industry. Its machines can be used

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The Manufacturer: New Robots Bring Automated Sewing Into Reality

Meanwhile, SoftWear Automation, which has received backing from both Wal-Mart and the US Department of Defense, utilized a more advanced and complex concept. Their ‘Automatic Sewing Machine’ makes use of

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