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April 13, 2021 04:02 pm GMT
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These sneakers are woven by robots and have 3D-printed soles
Adidas is releasing a new sneaker design with a 3D-printed sole and fabric upper that's woven by a robot from as many as 10 different yarns. The first commercial versions, called Futurecraft.Strung, will be available later this year. From IEEE Spectrum:
— Read the rest"With Strung for the first time, we can program single threads in any direction, where each thread has a different property or strength," Fionn Corcoran-Tadd, an innovation designer at Adidas' Futurecraft lab, said in acompany video.
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