sabik@sabik@rants.au
@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
Probably a lot more garment making processes could be automated, but underpaid labour is cheaper
Sini Tuulia@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe
@sabik@rants.au It's definitely cheaper, but also making fitted clothing out of floppy and not-uniform materials, joined with other floppy and not uniform material, is pretty hard to automate unless you come up with a series of robots with very dextrous digits with sensory apparatus for texture, shrink, elasticity and weight. Honestly the optical sensors to track where each piece and edge is would be the easiest part.
Funnily enough you can 3D-print weird garments (I doubt they're comfy), and programmable knitting machines have been a thing for centuries! But sewing is VERY complicated to do well.