His grandfather installed hydro-power in the 1930s, providing lights for the house as well as powering farm machinery including the milking machine.

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Much of the precision machinery, computer-controlled machines that can machine anything you want, are already there.

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Some of the industries within manufacturing that have shown the strongest growth over the last 12 months have included machine shops, manufacturers of metalworking machinery, plastics product manufacturing and manufacturers of electrical equipment and components, Sageworks data shows.

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Asimo, by contrast, is an ornate, expensive and complicated piece of machinery that really only seems useful if you need a machine that can climb a stair for you.

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What if it was possible to break a complex piece of machinery into a thousand pieces and then, at some predetermined moment, have the machine put itself back together again?

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