{"id":26030,"date":"2016-05-25T05:46:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T12:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/adidas-to-sell-robot-made-shoes-in-germany"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:45","slug":"adidas-to-sell-robot-made-shoes-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/adidas-to-sell-robot-made-shoes-in-germany","title":{"rendered":"Adidas to sell robot-made shoes in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/adidas-to-sell-robot-made-shoes-in-germany.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your next pair of Adidas shoes may be put together by robots \u2014 the German sports retailer has said it will start selling its first robot-produced shoes in a new, state-of-the-art factory in its home market starting 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came as Adidas unveiled its prototype \u201cSpeedfactory\u201d, a state-of-the-art, 4,600 square-meter facility on Tuesday, meant to automate shoe production, which is largely done manually in Asian factories at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>The new production site in the southern German city of Ansbach is still under construction, but it represents a return to local production for Adidas, which stopped manufacturing shoes in its home market more than two decades ago in favor of Asia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/adidas-to-sell-robot-made-shoes-in-germany\/a-19280669\">http:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/adidas-to-sell-robot-made-shoes-in-germany\/a-19280669<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your next pair of Adidas shoes may be put together by robots \u2014 the German sports retailer has said it will start selling its first robot-produced shoes in a new, state-of-the-art factory in its home market starting 2017. The announcement came as Adidas unveiled its prototype \u201cSpeedfactory\u201d, a state-of-the-art, 4,600 square-meter facility on Tuesday, meant [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67426,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26030\/revisions\/67426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}