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03.12.2006

Employees of the University of Genoa (Italy) are taking part in a pan-European program to create a fully automated system for tailoring.

The task of measuring the customer's figure has already been solved, this is done using a network of laser beams. Italian engineers are developing ways to manipulate fabric cuts. What arms to supply the robot-tailor? Three options are being considered.

The fabric can be taken with vacuum suction cups. It is possible to install Peltier elements on the fingers of the robot - semiconductor devices that are strongly cooled when an electric current is passed.

The fabric, slightly damp, will freeze to the fingers, and to release it, you need to reverse the direction of the current, and the fingers will heat up.

The third option is electrostatic grippers that hold the tissue with a high voltage charge. The "assembly" of the ordered clothes will be carried out on a mannequin that changes its shape depending on the figure of the customer.

Since the system is still being patented, details about the structure of the variable dummy are not published, it is only known that under its flexible shell there are pushers, the extension and retraction of which is controlled by a computer according to laser measurements.

The European Union allocated 16 million euros for the creation of the system, and another 9 million were added by interested private firms, such as Hugo Boss.

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