The original paper is at [ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2018.0016... ].

I haven't read it yet, but it looks like interesting stuff: TMR always felt like a stepping stone to somewhere else, and if this technique generalises, then this might be that somewhere...

At some point soon. I expect to see a Boston dynamics video on HN of a real cat with titanium spider legs.

Animals/Humans/Living things are really similar to the high level concept of computers, with countless input/output combinations which all seem to be valid.