U.S. military uniforms may not be the most fashionable of clothes, but there are a lot of them. Every year, the Pentagon spends US$4 billion on uniforms and over 50,000 people are employed in their production. In an effort to cut costs and increase efficiency, DARPA has awarded a US$1.25 million contract SoftWear Automation, Inc. to develop “complete production facilities that produce garments with zero direct labor is the ultimate goal" - in other words, a robot factory that can make uniforms from beginning to end without human operators... Continue Reading
DARPA looks at developing robots to sew uniforms
2 comments:
But will everything still come in the two standard sizes, namely Too Big and Too Small?
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Why doesn't the US Gov. just buy the military uniforms from China?
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