After getting cut out of the car by emergency personnel, James was transported to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where the physical toll of the accident (mostly on his right side, he says) was ...

Automated factories were seen as an alternative to overseas labor Automated factories were seen as an alternative to overseas labor is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech ...

Frankfurt: Sportswear maker Adidas announced on Monday that it was closing two niche but flagship factories in Germany and the United States that use robots and 4D printing to make sneakers, shifting ...

Adidas is shutting down two cutting-edge footwear factories in Germany and the United States and moving production to Asia. The German sportswear maker announced this week that it would be closing ...

Adidas announced on Monday, November 11 that it’s closing its high-tech Speedfactory facilities in Atlanta, U.S., and Ansbach, Germany, and shifting some of the technology to existing factories in ...

Back in 2017, sportswear company Adidas decided to bring sneaker manufacturing back to the US with a state-of-the-art robotic production facility called a Speedfactory. Today, Adidas announced its two ...

Adidas is not eschewing the 3D printing technology it has lauded as a superior way to produce shoes, but it is demonstrating that location for this tech still matters to the bottom line. At the ...

An expensive experiment in global distribution has been abandoned by Adidas, which has announced that will close its robotic “Speedfactories” in Atlanta and Ansbach, Germany, within 6 months. The ...

First announced in August 2016 and located in Cherokee County, Adidas' Speedfactory is a digitally automated, hyper-flexible shoe factory. Everett Bouwer To continue ...