KEY BENEFITS OF AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS FOR TEXTILES AND CLOTHING
October 30th, 2022
A key question in any industry is to what extent robotics will be able to replace the human hand. This issue is especially pertinent for textiles and clothing – where sensor-based automation increasingly carries out human tasks such as assessing the feel of textiles and quality control.
Lutz Walter, secretary general of the European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (ETP), told Textile 4.0 that the main potential benefits of automation and robotics for textile and clothing manufacturing were the replacement of repetitive, ...
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