This is dystopian... Terminator shape-shifting robots. Has this scientist even seen the Terminator movies? Spoiler - the future doesn't turn out well for humanity nor for the scientists that developed the tech at Skynet.

One small detail that's kinda interesting in your article is the Twitter handle of the woman commenting on this is - Sarah O'Connor. The heroine in the terminator movies is Sarah Connor.

Probably just a strange coincidence but kinda odd.