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Why Robots Still Can’t Do One of Fashion’s Most Important Jobs

Efforts to automate sewing have fallen short of expectations.
Efforts to automate sewing have fallen short of expectations.
Efforts to automate sewing have fallen short of expectations. (Shutterstock)

There’s one part of fashion that the technological leaps of recent decades still haven’t managed to revolutionise: sewing.

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