can technology make the business of fashion less ugly?
- # this is a video essay in progress!!!! leave comments if you think of something i haven't or the spirit moves u
- # focusing on: labour rights, sweatshops, and AI/robotic automation
- Companies trying to "innovate in the space"
- https://www.createme.com
- https://www.rotostitch.com/
- softwear automation, based in the US, 3rd gen of sewing robots coming up. they will apparently make t-shirts in the us at the same priced point as shipping them in from...?
- https://www.silana.com
- https://robotextile.com/en
- https://softwearautomation.com
- Sources/leads
- softwear, mentioned in the video, spent 10+ years developing the tech to make tshirts at scale autonomously, just raised $20 mil end of 2025 to keep operating, seem to be hiring, but where are the garments they create? to youtube!
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q2gkj97eko
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsSDI8wWAyQ
- this video is old and stupid. "autonomous sewing isn't nearly as advanced as autonomous vehicles" of course not, there's so many more permutations and tasks (i don't drive but to me it feels like there are less combos of options with a car than a sewing machine)
- https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/12/10/how-automation-in-apparel-manufacturing-is-more-than-humanoids-the-tech-innovation-that-matters/
- what is the overall aim of making garment creating robots? is it to make money? is it to reduce emissions like carbon or water? is it to relieve suffering caused by working in sweatshops? or a combination of all of these? or just money lol
- stuff to mention in passing but not focus on
- the work did not start with the luddites... threshers (people who seperate wheat from chaff before the combine harvester or threshing machines) also rose up against their work being taken, as well as hosiers and [others]
- LLM use
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm0f7n9mDVc
- [sewing mahcine riot notes]
- did automating the gruelling and labourious work of threshing make the world better?
- https://archive.org/details/beforeludditescu0000rand
can technology make the business of fashion less ugly?
- # this is a video essay in progress!!!! leave comments if you think of something i haven't or the spirit moves u
- # focusing on: labour rights, sweatshops, and AI/robotic automation
- Companies trying to "innovate in the space"
- https://www.createme.com
- https://www.rotostitch.com/
- softwear automation, based in the US, 3rd gen of sewing robots coming up. they will apparently make t-shirts in the us at the same priced point as shipping them in from...?
- https://www.silana.com
- https://robotextile.com/en
- https://softwearautomation.com
- Sources/leads
- softwear, mentioned in the video, spent 10+ years developing the tech to make tshirts at scale autonomously, just raised $20 mil end of 2025 to keep operating, seem to be hiring, but where are the garments they create? to youtube!
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q2gkj97eko
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsSDI8wWAyQ
- this video is old and stupid. "autonomous sewing isn't nearly as advanced as autonomous vehicles" of course not, there's so many more permutations and tasks (i don't drive but to me it feels like there are less combos of options with a car than a sewing machine)
- https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/12/10/how-automation-in-apparel-manufacturing-is-more-than-humanoids-the-tech-innovation-that-matters/
- what is the overall aim of making garment creating robots? is it to make money? is it to reduce emissions like carbon or water? is it to relieve suffering caused by working in sweatshops? or a combination of all of these? or just money lol
- stuff to mention in passing but not focus on
- the work did not start with the luddites... threshers (people who seperate wheat from chaff before the combine harvester or threshing machines) also rose up against their work being taken, as well as hosiers and [others]
- LLM use
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm0f7n9mDVc
- [sewing mahcine riot notes]
- did automating the gruelling and labourious work of threshing make the world better?
- https://archive.org/details/beforeludditescu0000rand