{"id":14787,"date":"2026-05-22T12:53:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/?p=14787"},"modified":"2026-10-15T23:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T21:16:17","slug":"clothia-textile-sorting-ai-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/clothia-textile-sorting-ai-robotics\/","title":{"rendered":"CLOTHIA makes progress on automatic textile sorting with AI and robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CLOTHIA project (CLOTH Inspection &amp; Automation with AI) is developing a comprehensive advanced robotics and artificial intelligence solution to identify, handle and sort garments and textile items according to their physical condition and material composition. The aim is to optimise textile reuse, recycling and recovery processes in real industrial settings and to boost the circular economy.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2026, the NUTAI, CIGIP and UPV ai2 Institute teams visited AITEX to optimise data acquisition procedures for the project dataset. They analysed how to reduce reflections on white garments and assessed adding vinyl sheets with specific patterns to the conveyor belts to make image processing easier.<\/p>\n<p>NUTAI also presented CLOTHIA at HANNOVER MESSE. The project&#8217;s technology lines include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>computer vision and AI to detect and sort post-consumer garments;<\/li>\n<li>automated handling of deformable textiles;<\/li>\n<li>real-time fusion of several data sources (image, voice and tactile sensors);<\/li>\n<li>AI algorithms for automatic model calibration and selection;<\/li>\n<li>super-resolution tools to improve data capture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The consortium includes NUTAI, AITEX, EXOS SOLUTIONS, KOOPERA and CIGIP. The project (file INNEST\/2025\/184) is supported by the Valencian Innovation Agency (AVI) and co-funded by the European Union through the ERDF Comunitat Valenciana 2021-2027 programme. More information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/cloth-inspection-automation-ai-en\/\">project page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIGIP takes part in CLOTHIA, a project developing computer vision and robotics to sort garments and textiles and boost their reuse and recycling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[932,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14788,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787\/revisions\/14788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cigip.webs.upv.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}