These sneakers are woven by robots and have 3D-printed soles

Adidas is releasing a new sneaker design with a 3D-printed sole and fabric upper that's woven by a robot from as many as 10 different yarns. The first commercial versions, called Futurecraft.Strung, will be available later this year. From IEEE Spectrum:

'With Strung for the first time, we can program single threads in any direction, where each thread has a different property or strength,' Fionn Corcoran-Tadd, an innovation designer at Adidas' Futurecraft lab, said in a company video. — Read the rest