The Robot Revolution: Automation Comes into Fashion | Moving Upstream

Automation is finally coming into fashion, with sewing robots that can produce clothes faster than human hands. In this episode of Moving Upstream, WSJ's Jason Bellini takes a look at the...

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The automationRevolution is beginning to come into fashionThe clothing industry is among the latest economic sectors to be making the leapWhich is ironic because it was among the first to be mechanizedtoday they still requireSkilled human hands to guide and handle the materialsIn this episode of moving upstream our third on the robotics revolutionLooking at what these new cutting-edge technologies can do and the impact they're beginning to have on the developing worldAcross the globe 60 million people toil each day in the garment industryIt offers the poor poor women in particular job opportunities they might not have otherwiseThe journal visited garment factories in BangladeshThey employ more than three and a half million people most working for a little more tha...