Scientists have been able to develop tiny machines that can eat, grow, evolve like real creatures and eventually grow older and die, renewing fears of robots rising and controlling humans like the famous movie Terminator.

This machine does not look like human beings as it did in the Terminator series, but the level of sophistication scientists have ever developed has not been seen in any robots.

The news of this innovation, for Cornell University scientists, sparked controversy on the Internet, comparing it to Skynet, which developed the technology behind the emergence of killer robots in Terminator films.

According to Professor Dan Law, a biologist at Cornell University and working on the project, the machines they developed as complex as a living organism are as simple as mold.

"We are introducing a completely new, vibrant material concept that works with its own industrial metabolism," Lu said. "We have not done anything alive, but we are making more vital materials than ever."

Le and his team raise their robots using synthetic DNA-based synthetic material. This substance has the properties of living organisms, including their ability to metabolize-generate and use energy-and self-assembly.

When left alone, the material formed small machines that moved on their own, grew, developed, consumed resources and eventually died, and even scientists have incited some machines to each other in competitive races.

These machines are not self-sufficient, but behave like organisms, and can pave the way for self-sustaining robots or self-replicating machines, according to team member Shogo Hamadeh.

Commentators on the Internet described such machines as "terrifying," and one of them said on Twitter, "Do you want Cornell to become the next Skynet? That's very scary." "Did not anyone see any of the Terminator films? Will we allow this to really happen?" Another wrote.