adidas Futurecraft STRUNG Threads the Future With Robotic Precision
FUTURECRAFT.STRUNG combines robotics + software directed precision to fashion the 1st fully athlete data-coded running shoe.
From a distance the silhouette of the newly unveiled adidas Futurecraft STRUNG share a semblance to several of the brand’s current 3D printed cushioned 4D sneakers. A closer inspection reveals an intricate and layered thread woven design unlike anything currently on the market ? the first athletic shoe made using software and robotics to precisely place every thread according to athlete data.
Using additive manufacturing and robotics, the STRUNG forgoes a traditional woven or knitted upper for a performance upper where every thread of the shoe is precisely ? horizontally or vertically ? layered into a seamless fit. The process not only results in a precisely fit shoe, excess material that normally goes to waste while making traditionally manufactured shoes is eliminated.
Inspired by the field of architecture, the adidas Future design team cite “interesting experiments” utilizing robotics to build architectural structures as inspiration for the scripts programmed to build fiber structures in sneaker form.
“We started to think about how we could make a machine that would do this type of thread ‘winding’ by hand, how to integrate athlete data, and how to build software to create, simulate, analyze and test STRUNG uppers. After two years of internal adidas development, we decided to accelerate this process by...
From a distance the silhouette of the newly unveiled adidas Futurecraft STRUNG share a semblance to several of the brand’s current 3D printed cushioned 4D sneakers. A closer inspection reveals an intricate and layered thread woven design unlike anything currently on the market ? the first athletic shoe made using software and robotics to precisely place every thread according to athlete data.
Using additive manufacturing and robotics, the STRUNG forgoes a traditional woven or knitted upper for a performance upper where every thread of the shoe is precisely ? horizontally or vertically ? layered into a seamless fit. The process not only results in a precisely fit shoe, excess material that normally goes to waste while making traditionally manufactured shoes is eliminated.
Inspired by the field of architecture, the adidas Future design team cite “interesting experiments” utilizing robotics to build architectural structures as inspiration for the scripts programmed to build fiber structures in sneaker form.
“We started to think about how we could make a machine that would do this type of thread ‘winding’ by hand, how to integrate athlete data, and how to build software to create, simulate, analyze and test STRUNG uppers. After two years of internal adidas development, we decided to accelerate this process by...
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