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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
Both those links are about the same (fake) robot by Kaiwa Technology.
Well damn, I've been seeing variations of this concept for decades, but nobody ever claimed it was "developed"
I'm sickened by how many "flawed trials" are going to result out of such a thing before it "succeeds."
Even as a goal, this is so wrong on every level. The stuff of nightmares.
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.
You're right, so there's a 99.9% chance it's AI generated for clickbait
Nope 100%
The answer is: gen AI slop.
However, the obsession with bi-pedal robots is creepy and weird.
I watched someone on YouTube talking about it but can't remember the channel.
Basically, there is no single task for which bipedal is the best format, it's only suitable for the range of tasks humans can perform. However, we just don't have the tech to make that format viable. As in, they can't do the dishes or clean the bathroom or take out the trash.
Demonstrations of bots doing those things are in tightly controlled environments with loads of programmed parameters.
Its appealing because everyone wants a humanoid to order around, but that's about it.
I am pretty sure the picture is not representative of the actual device.
More fetish potential
Why the fuck does it have to have a robot body?
So it can sit in those reserved places on public transport. It would be wasted space otherwise.
Never noticed before how nice the butt on the next human battery is...
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.
30 years, yes, but for the past 15 or so it's been clear that China is pulling way ahead in every metric. I think home ownership has been in the 90s% for a long time. Likewise, the fall of the American empire started with Reagan, it was clear where this train was headed, capitalism will always end in fascism.
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.
We just need something "good enough", it doesn't need to be fully developed, just to grow up enough to mop some floors, maybe pick some items in an amazon warehouse
Brave New World vibes
All these related AI claims like "AI will cure cancer" or anything related to AI solving otherwise unsolved scientific problems are always hilarious. Curing cancer or any other disease requires us to fully understand the biological mechanisms of the disease enough to then even attempt to affect it with a drug.
AI learns and does its thing via input data from human knowledge and our current understanding. How can AI possibly gain an understanding of the disease mechanism or biological/biochemical system beyond that which humans understand? Not to mention it can't perform any sort of experiments to even test an idea.
Sure I can appreciate it speeding up certain analyses that are otherwise tedious to do ourselves, but it's never going to spit out some magic bullet cure
"His mom is a Kranger!"
Cool, now we can make orphans with technology!
Or, you know, not put mothers through the painful, dangerous, and potentially lethal ordeal known as pregnancy.
Can the robots crush them too or does that require different robots?
Oh it can give birth to live babies now! That's definitely a step up!
Yeah, the dead baby machine was not as impressive.
Though to be fair, it’s much easier to make.
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.
Bet the price will be absolutely prohibitive, letting only the rich use them.
Bet it will be used to shield the rich from the consequences of failing medical systems.
I'm not saying it's a bad technology, I'm saying it's being developed by the time, money, and effort, and for the benefit of parasites, assuming it's not just marketing for a cash-grab startup.
So... We're not getting the Terminator apocalypse? It's going to be The Matrix apocalypse after all?
This is a promising way to end surrogacy abuse in the 3rd world. I hope that future is realized.
Honestly, I think that artificial wombs will be quite good for society.
We second this, as a trans woman, it would be really nice to actually have a child like any other woman even if it's through external means, or for women who simply don’t want/cant carry a child safely or are of parents who cant conceive/aren’t about to convince easily.
No, it wouldn't. It allows companies and states to mass produce human beings with whatever genetic variations they wish. Women are a very critical resistor to that kind of consolidation of control of our species.
Lovely how they went from having a one-child policy to having ∞-child capabilities in just a few decades.
Well, at least they will be bad at shooting and probably dress in all white armor.
Stormtroopers aren't clones.
Correct. The Clone Troopers were clones, which in the prequel movies is very clearly pointed out, but by the time of Episode IV: A New Hope the Empire had been recruiting from the general population. Much like most wars which drag on for a while, the elite forces end up having to let in new recruits to fill in gaps from those who were lost. These recruits might not have more than just some basic training, and when rebels then infiltrate weapons manufacturing plants and fiddle with the quality of the guns provided to these troops (IIRC mentioned in Andor if not elsewhere), it's no wonder the Storm Troopers had worse aim than the Clone Troopers.
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.
This is an important step for mechaphiles with mpreg fetishes.
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)
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
Finally, I can clone a Duncan!
I’m pretty sure this is the beginning of the movie Soldier (1998), starring Kurt Russel.
