A scalable pipeline for designing reconfigurable organisms

This is a cool hack.

But unless i'm missing something, there's no source of persistent patterning here. Nothing like morphogenesis as it usually happens in animals. The tissues are shaped by assembly, and that's it. I can't imagine these things will stay functional for very long.

Finally a tangible publication on the matter! I was astounded by Michael Levin's presentation at NeurIPS in 2018. I did not understand was no press outlet mentionned it.

This is a breakthrough discovery that will enable the creation of whole new classes of technology and medicine!

Also weapons.

What kinds of weapons do you foresee being feasible with this technology ?

Off-topic: I am in love with the term in silico - first time seeing it anywhere

It's a great word. You'll see it all over the place in AI aided drug design and tons of other places as well