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    The Innovation Makerspace: Geographies of Digital Fabrication Innovation in Greater New York City

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    Desktop digital fabrication technology has the potential to powerfully alter the economics, geography, and sociology of production. The desktop technology cannot reach its potential for widespread impact until it improves in quality and decreases in price. Makerspaces have emerged in the United States in the last eight years as informal social organizations where innovation in this technology may be occurring. This study examines whether innovation in digital fabrication technology has occurred, or has the potential to occur, at makerspaces in the New York City area

    The Specifiability Requirement in Mobile Robot Self-Localization

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    In last years, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping techniques monopolize research in mobile robot self-localization, especially in the civilian, Service Robotics domain. In this paper we argue that techniques derived from the industrial scenario, in particular beacon-based triangulation systems, should be taken into considerations even for civilian applications whenever we deem important to provide accurate, a priori specifications about the system behavior in a generic, yet untested environment. The paper provides an analytical expression of sensitivity to errors for triangulation depending on the system geometry
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