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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

(Reuters) - Will a robot ever make your blue jeans? There is a quiet effort underway to find out — involving clothing and technology companies, including Germany’s Siemens AG and Levi Strauss & Co.

The company is called Sewbo, and what it does could have an enormous impact on the way clothes are manufactured – and the people who manufacture them. Sewbo makes a robotic arm that is able to sew a T ...

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 ...

Take a look at the tag on your shirt. If you are in the U.S., chances are it was made in a country like China or Thailand and then shipped overseas. Jonathan Zornow, the sole employee of a new startup ...

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 ...

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 ...

The garment industry has long resisted automation for one key reason: soft fabric is difficult for robots to handle. Whereas cars and computers are made of rigid metal and plastic, clothing is by its ...

The last time a piece of technology significantly overhauled the textile industry, it was 1842 with the invention of the sewing machine. Today, robots can handle parts of the garment-making ...