actually that assessment is wrong
Animals adapt throughout the ages
Humans have a long history of changing our environment to our liking and fitting our survival on that note
to change our selfs by machines would be to go into the point of changing our world for us to survive towards changing out self to survive, genetic engineering would fall under that as well.

Animals greatest strength has always been their physical abilities while humans the the fact that we are sentient and have since been developing our brains further and further