Toward the personal factory?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4568, Issue , 2001, Pages 293-303

  Breguet, Jean Marc ^a   Bergander, Arvid ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Digital Manufacturing; Microfactory; Nanofactory; Nanotechnology; Personal Factory; Rapid Prototyping

Indexed keywords

LITHOGRAPHY; MINIATURE INSTRUMENTS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ROBOTICS;

PERSONAL FACTORIES (PF);

RAPID PROTOTYPING;

EID: 0035767956     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.444138     Document Type: Conference Paper

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