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A story circulating on social media this week featured a seemingly made-up scientist who is developing an equally imaginary ...
The technology could potentially assist infertile couples or individuals who prefer not to undergo a biological pregnancy.
There’s a robot for that. What a time to be alive — people are marrying AI bots, and now robots might soon be able to carry babies. Reportedly, China is working on designing a bot with an artificial ...
In what may become one of the most controversial advances in medical technology, a Chinese research team has developed a humanoid robot equipped with a fully functional artificial womb, capable of ...
The idea stems from gaps in reproductive healthcare. Infertility rates in China are rising—from 11.9% in 2007 to 18% in 2020, ...
Chinese researchers are developing a humanoid robot with an artificial womb designed to replicate the entire human pregnancy process from conception to birth. This ambitious project, though raising ...
Since the beginning, cinema has been the medium responsible for bringing fictional future situations to our retina. However, these have in many cases been successfully realised by ...
In August 2025, a rumor began to spread that a "pregnancy robot" was in development in China. Social media posts and articles circulated with different AI-generated images of such a robot, including ...
Explore the realm of artificial wombs and surrogacy in "Baby Makers" by Gita Aravamudan, delving into cutting-edge reproductive technology.
Live Science readers reveal whether they would use a hypothetical "pregnancy robot" — a humanoid machine fitted with an ...