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I've been curious about knitting & crochet from a programming / robotics / simulation perspective for a while, but deferred it to cut my teeth on simpler problems. Those industrial robots seems to be knitting, not crocheting. They use the term "crochet knitting" as a sales tactic.

This short video is annoying but informative: [1]

The closest I've seen to actual robotic crochet is [2].

Which is exciting and close - but it's hard to overstate its limitations. I took the challenge in that short video seriously and spent 10-20 hours learning basic crochet. It became very clear that replicating my simple test patterns would require vision, planning and modeling capabilities beyond anything I've seen in SOTA surgical robots.

What I find interesting about the post (Knotty) is buried here [3] - apparently it's possible to ditch the grid and create an intuitive representation of the final knit pattern. I suspect that may be doable using traditional algorithms.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EImnSsCadK8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1-pfeaVsOM

[3] https://stitch-maps.com/about/overview/