Chinese clothing manufacturing giant Tianyuan Garments is certainly intrigued. They’re getting ready to open a 100,000 square foot factory in Little Rock, Arkansas that will feature 21 SewBots. They’ll be able to produce around 1.2 million t-shirts a year.
Until now, a company like Tianyuan Garments probably wouldn’t have considered opening a U.S.-based facility because of high labor costs. According to a report from Quartz, those costs could amount to as much as $7.47 for a single shirt. SewBots can turn them out for just 33 cents each, which is marginally more expensive than having shirts sewn by hands in Bangladesh.