Robots now set their sights on a new job: Sewing your blue jeans

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.
 

“Clothing is the last trillion-dollar industry that hasn’t been automated,” said Eugen Solowjow, who heads a project at a Siemens lab in San Francisco that has worked on automating apparel manufacturing since 2018.
 

The idea of using robots to bring more manufacturing back from overseas gained momentum during the pandemic as snarled supply chains highlighted the risks of relying on distant factories.
 

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