Could this become a strategy for hibernating during deep space travel? Say, we could chill ourselves until it seems we're almost dead and use this type of process for preserving ourselves until we get to the next habitable planet?
The idea of infants being raised to adulthood by machinery in unknown conditions to start a new civilization seems more like branching into a different species when you really think it through. I have greatly enjoyed this story line in fiction, but I honestly don't see it as remotely realistic for many, many decades if not centuries. Unless we stumble across the Singularity or something, haha.
We are quite a ways from fully understanding even a single neuron.