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    ANCA CNC Machines, based in Melbourne, Australia, wants to enable autonomous manufacturing, full end-to-end production without human interaction. The company primarily makes CNC machines for the tool and cutter industries, and ANCA's technical manager for systems engineering, Samuel Kirkpatrick, believes emerging technologies are influencing machine design and older tech is morphing to meet the challenge for more automation.

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