SoftWear Automation

Bestseller's sustainable innovation and investment platform Invest FWD is putting financial support behind automated garment manufacturing.

Softwear Automation, a pioneer in autonomous sewing technology, has successfully closed a $20 million Series B1 funding round. This is a significant milestone in the company's mission to revolutionize the manufacturing of sewn goods. A strategic investmen

ATLANTA, GA - August 11, 2025 Softwear Automation, the pioneer in autonomous sewing technology, today announced the successful close of its $20 million Series B1 funding round, marking a major milestone in its mission to revolutionize sewn goods manufactu

SoftWear Automation CEO Palaniswamy Rajan tells us how made on demand manufacturing can solve supply chain problems and cut emissions. Watch the Interview here. The post Bloomberg Green: How to Have a Green Christmas appeared first on Softwear Automation.

SOFTWEAR AUTOMATION is a robotics company that wants to make T-shirts. "We want to make a billion T-shirts a year in the US, all made on demand," says SoftWear CEO Palaniswamy Rajan. The company launched in 2012 with help from the Georgia Tech Advanced Te

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based sewbots and automation in apparel is not leading to nearshoring and shorter supply chains in developed countries yet, but experts have said that day may come. The use of artificial intelligence (AI)-style 'sewbots' that

The environmental impact of textile production is well documented, with the industry as a whole ranking second only to oil in terms of global pollution levels. Massive energy and water use, together with sky-high levels of discarded chemicals and landfill

Humans automatically and constantly adjust hand movements to the ever-changing alignment of cloth. Robots just freeze Menswear entrepreneur Harris Quinn wrote a thoughtful piece at Wired recently on the mixed success of efforts to automate sewing via Sewb

Independence Day brings the country together to cheer all things American. And while the textile industry can, despite COVID, celebrate an increase in stateside manufacturing, apparel makers have continued to offshore their manufacturing, save for a handf

The sewing process has often been described as the "last mile" of apparel manufacturing automation. In this interview, Palaniswamy "Raj" Rajan, Chairman & CEO, Softwear Automation, talks about how sewbots, and in particular the sewbots the company is manu