There could soon be a new way to interact with your favorite AI chatbots—through the clothing you wear. An international team ...

If your idea of smart fabrics is a pair of khaki pants that sheds food stains, think again. The smartest fabrics are becoming electroactive, allowing them to address far more important engineering ...

Apple has presented the patents in the past, including ones for making fabric buttons that are meant to be stitched to HomePods. A new patent shows several uses for smart fabric that has sensors and ...

The smart textiles market presents strong growth opportunities in emerging applications such as energy harvesting garments, e-textiles for mental health monitoring, and smart fashion. The increasing ...

R esearchers from Soochow University in China have developed a textile fabric that turns clothes into always-accessible AI assistants. The fabric, known as A-Textile, uses AI to recognize voice ...

In order to monitor their wearers' movements, smart fabrics typically incorporate strain-measuring sensors. And while such sensors are often impractically fragile, Harvard University scientists have ...

Researchers from RMIT University are using nanodiamonds to create smart textiles that can cool people down faster. Their study, published in the journal Polymers for Advanced Technologies, found ...

Smart fabrics can be manufactured from a wide range of materials and aim to provide added value with regards to safety, comfort or performance, especially enhancing athletic performance. Smart fabrics ...

New AI road monitoring system uses sensor-embedded fabric to predict infrastructure problems, potentially reducing maintenance costs and traffic disruptions for cities.