QuickChat: Fast Radius and Rawlings Discuss the Revolutionary REV1X Baseball Glove

Aug. 19, 2020
Learn how these two companies collaborated to bring the humble baseball glove into the 21st Century.

Engineers at the Rawlings Sporting Goods Co. were tasked with upgrading the company’s iconic baseball glove, taking advantage of the newest manufacturing processes and design tools to make it more effective for the modern-day ballplayer.

To that end, Rawlings partnered with manufacturing company Fast Radius to develop the REV1X glove. It boasts innovative 3D-printed lattice inserts and other performance-enhancing features designed and developed used cloud-based technologies. And in this video, you can learn more about how it all came to fruition.

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