Ep 28. AI Robotics for Fabrics and the Future of Stitchless Garment Making with Cam Myers
No Ordinary Cloth: Textile innovations in future materials, manufacturing and sustainabilityShow Notes
This episode goes deep into the complexity of how our clothes are cut and sewn today and what it will take to rebuild apparel manufacturing for the 21st century. Mili Tharakan is joined by Cam Myers, Founder, CEO and Board Director of CreateMe Technologies, who shares how his team is pioneering an autonomous, stitchless tailoring platform that brings together robotics, advanced adhesives and what he calls "Physical AI."
Cam is a seasoned entrepreneur and inventor with two decades of experience across automation, hardware, software, and apparel tech, he has built CreateMe from concept to industry pioneer, securing 25 patents for apparel automation innovations. Before CreateMe, Cam played key roles at DoubleClick (during its $3.1B sale to Google) and Group Commerce, a venture‑backed e‑commerce platform later acquired by Blackhawk Network. He began his career in investment banking at Allen & Company and holds an MA from Cambridge and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School, with further studies at MIT in advanced manufacturing.
Key takeaways
* Why apparel remains one of the most labor‑intensive, offshored industries in the world, employing tens of millions of people and relying heavily on manual sewing. * What makes sewing so hard to automate: unstable textile physics, extreme variability in fabrics and fits, and the need for human‑like perception and dexterity in three‑dimensional space. * How CreateMe's bonded garment technology uses printed adhesive patterns that mimic stitch files, enable fully automated assembly, and can be made thermo‑reversible for disassembly and recycling. * Where this platform is already being applied—starting with categories like women's underwear—and the range of fabrics, constructions, and embellishments it can support, from fine silks to complex laminations. * The vision for on‑shoring and "microfactories of the future": compact, high‑throughput production cells capable of million‑unit annual output, shorter lead times, and closer proximity to key consumer markets * What this shift could mean for inventory risk, responsiveness, sustainability, and the economics of producing apparel in high‑wage regions. * Cam's founder journey from investment banking and high‑growth tech and e‑commerce ventures to building CreateMe into an apparel automation pioneer with a growing portfolio of patents—and why textiles should be seen as critical infrastructure, not just fashion trends.
CreateMe [https://www.createme.com/]
London Sewing Machine museum: www.museumslondon.org [https://www.museumslondon.org/museum/131/london-sewing-machine-museum]
🎧 Recommended listening:
Ep 6. AI for Zero waste fabric, Sustainability and Traceability in Textile Factories [https://open.spotify.com/episode/2om0aQd2cV7yzaYX9kxigm?si=a3b9adfe7c4948d6]
Ep 13. 3D Weaving yarn to garment and zero inventory circular fashion [https://open.spotify.com/episode/1udKV0BOXRhePn3UokmPVA?si=703fea59ed7c490c]
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