Dressing humanoid robots: automotive-grade fabrics, millions per garment
yongqianme · x · 2026-10-08
- The author spent days designing garments for humanoid robots, selecting yarns and textures while engineering for heat dissipation and tear strength where fabric attaches to shell parts — all to automotive-grade standards, reusing experience from building automotive interior robot equipment.
- They claim some embodied-AI companies spend dozens of people and millions in labor costs to produce a single robot garment, highlighting a hidden cost bottleneck in humanoid mass production.
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