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Robots Assist Adidas With Manufacturing

  • Wired, Monday, October 12, 2020 2:18 PM
High-tech manufacturing has found its way into sneaker production. “Adidas has revealed that for the last four years its computer and sports scientists have been secretly working on a brand-new way to create a shoe’s upper,” per Wired. “Called ‘Futurecraft.Strung,’ the technology sees a robot quickly place more than a thousand individual threads at mind-bending angles across the material part of the shoe.”

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