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China's plan for robot to deliver human baby - Secular Sanity - Aug 21, 2025
“A Chinese tech firm is racing to deliver what could be the world’s first “gestation robot”.
The idea from Kaiwa Technology, based in Guangzhou, involves a humanoid designed with an artificial womb embedded in its abdomen, intended to carry a fetus through ten months of gestation and deliver a baby, according to Chinese media outlets.
Slated for debut by 2026 and expected to sell for under 100,000 yuan (around $13,900), the robot aims to offer a pregnancy alternative for those who wish to avoid the burdens of human gestation.”
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-worlds-first-pregnancy-humanoid-robot
CC might have already posted this somewhere but I couldn't find it.
"I am Mother" might not be too far off.
RE: China's plan for robot to deliver human baby - Yazata - Aug 21, 2025
I think that there have been other attempts to create an artificial womb. I don't know why the Chinese felt that it needed to be part of a humanoid robot.
Actually, it might be easier and more effective to use a female animal of some appropriate sort. The technology to implant embryos of one species in another species already exists.
RE: China's plan for robot to deliver human baby - C C - Aug 21, 2025
No ultimate source seems to have been pinpointed at this point. Who knows, maybe rogue AIs are generating yellow journalism on their own these days. Rick Beato is apparently being litigiously harassed by one that was hired as a hit-bot by Universal Music Group. Even after he hired a lawyer, the thing is absolutely unrelenting: https://youtu.be/zBq_krhKbW4
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No, a 'pregnancy robot' wasn't developed in China as option for surrogacy
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/08/18/pregnancy-robot-china-surrogacy
EXCERPT: ... a spokesperson for NTU said that no alleged inventor with that name had ever graduated from the higher learning institution and no such robot had been developed there, either. "No one by the name of 'Zhang Qifeng' graduated from NTU with a PhD," the spokesperson said. "Our checks also showed no such 'gestation robot' research has been conducted at NTU." The claim is therefore false.
RE: China's plan for robot to deliver human baby - Secular Sanity - Aug 21, 2025
So, false positive? Peed on a wi-fi stick?
Thanks, CC!
RE: China's plan for robot to deliver human baby - Railko - Aug 23, 2025
I hope it would be safe. It sounds like a great idea for mothers who don't want to carry their own children for a variety of reasons, but I'd worry about materials from the womb leaching off into the baby. I know it can be done in chicks so artificial wombs like this don't seem too far off, I just hope they plan for this should things happen.