At last, a use for that industrial knitting machine you bought at a yard sale! Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening the ...

The furniture of the future could be made from nothing more than two long strands of yarn. A prototype manufacturing machine developed at Carnegie Mellon University is transforming traditional textile ...

A hot trend in artificial intelligence in recent years has been the rise of impressive fakes -- fake headshots, fake videos, fake text. Deep learning techniques, part of machine learning, have gotten ...

Hands up if you love knitting but wish it was quicker to do? We have the solution! Why not invest in a knitting machine? They ...

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