It is just a concept right now. It has not yet delivered any live births.
"Despite optimism, experts state that the technology is still far from full implementation." https://thaitimes.com/a-robot-to-give-birth-the-chinese-announcement-that-shakes-the-world
The same proposed robot went viral in 2025 but was entirely fake: https://www.livescience.com/health/fertility-pregnancy-birth/pregnancy-robot-from-china-is-fake-but-is-the-technology-behind-it-possible
If you had told me 30 years ago that China would be "Brave New World" and the US would be "1984" I would have thought that you got it backwards.
"His mom is a Kranger!"
Why the fuck does it have to have a robot body?
What's the point? Just make an artificial womb and be done with it.
Just tacking on dog shit robotics just means it's needlessly complex and has more fault areas.
More dumbass tech shit.
Oh it can give birth to live babies now! That's definitely a step up!
I don't claim to be an expert on the endocrine system. But I know enough to know it's the most complicated system in the body. Possibly more complicated than the brain (my area of expertise).
And only recently did scientists figure out how to high jack the endocrine system for weight loss and not without plenty of side effects.
So in order for a baby to come to term, it must be exposed to different hormones , at different levels, at different times that come from the mother.
We can't produce all of those hormones. We can't even currently determine all of hormone needs of a fetus. So there is no way to meet these needs. Not to mention the protein needs. Again, many of which are made by the mother. And can't be synthetic.
We can grow an embryo in a container for quite a while. weeks. Maybe even a few months.
Sure, you can attach it to a roomba with temperature control.
But that's not the same as being able to grow a baby to term.
Why yes women having to carry pregnancies for nine months and then having to go through the pains of giving birth is a good thing we should not relieve them of that burden even when technology allows that thank you for asking.
Well, at least they will be bad at shooting and probably dress in all white armor.
This is an important step for mechaphiles with mpreg fetishes.
Finally, I can clone a Duncan!
The same fear that people had for IVF pregnancies. No one can tell by looking how you were born (unless your head got stuck in that cone shape if you had to be yanked out by suction)
This is a promising way to end surrogacy abuse in the 3rd world. I hope that future is realized.
Iβm pretty sure this is the beginning of the movie Soldier (1998), starring Kurt Russel.
So... We're not getting the Terminator apocalypse? It's going to be The Matrix apocalypse after all?
Cool, now we can make orphans with technology!
Lovely how they went from having a one-child policy to having β-child capabilities in just a few decades.
Finally we have created the Torment Nexusβ¦
eh.. I see the taunts much more likely being "his dad's a techbro"
Ah yes, the backstory to Raised By Wolves.
Does it have GPU datacenters? No?
Then not clanker.
Wasn't this a thing in both the matrix and dune?
Aside from the obvious technological barriers to achieve this, are they going to turn them into soylent green when they're no longer useful and old?
All hail the dystopian future, where countries don't need people to make babies, in fact, they oughtn't, as it decreases worker productivity. They can just order a steady amount of new slaves workers being born.
As a gay guy I'd love if this were real and widely available. I would be able to become a father, but not have to navigate the moral minefields of surrogacy and adoption
This is a minor sorry point in the classic "hell a cyber punk thriller" game from the 90's.
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