Walk into a modern semiconductor factory and you’ll see full end-to-end automated processes. Visit an automotive plant and you’ll watch lines weld and paint without a human touch. But walk into a modern apparel factory, and you’ll still find rows and rows of people guiding fabric manually through a sewing machine, one seam at a time.
For all our progress in robotics, AI and advanced manufacturing, textiles remain stubbornly manual in many areas including sewing.