Ordinarily, programming an industrial knitting machine to knit a certain type of item is quite a complex process. As a result, they're generally not used to create one-offs. That could change, though, ...

NEW YORK: Scientists have used computationally controlled knitting machines to create robotic plush toys and other knitted objects, an approach that may be used to cost-effectively make soft robots ...

Those of us who to textile work may own a sewing machine and even if we’re really into it and have the funds, an overlocker. But there’s another machine in that field that few of us will have, and ...

The furniture of the future could be made from nothing more than two long strands of yarn. A prototype manufacturing machine developed at Carnegie Mellon University is transforming traditional textile ...

Garment manufacturing usually involves the use of purchased fabrics, although you could produce your own fabrics as well as garments made from them. You could specialize in a certain apparel ...

The MIT CSAIL team calls them “banana fingers,” and I can’t really disagree. They’re oblong and bright yellow, but as visually arresting as they are at first glance, they do serve a function. The ...