Can high-tech reverse outsourcing of US clothing manufacturing?

Fox News reports:

“Made in U.S.A.” could soon be back on the clothes you buy, thanks to high-tech innovation.

A company called SoftWear Automation is collaborating with researchers at Georgia Tech to develop robots capable of manipulating fabrics through conventional sewing machines.

“It is definitely going to make it competitive with manufacturing overseas,” said Georgia Tech professor Sundaresan Jayaraman. “But the key thing is not just the manufacturing cost, but the added things that are going to happen in terms of the total cost. You don’t have to wait for 45 days for a boat to come from a developing country back to the United States.”

The manufacturing of sewn products has been slow to automate because, unlike metal or wood, fabric is flexible. But researchers have developed software that can locate individual threads inside the fabric and track their positions like a grid pattern.

Just a reminder, robots don't pay coerced union dues either.