Robots can do a lot these days. Cleaning houses, building machines, helping doctors in surgery, and now, a scientist based out of China is working on a robot that can carry a human fetus to term. The ...

When it’s time to bring new life into the world, the human body transforms itself in remarkable ways. The immune system, which usually fights off anything that reads as foreign, learns to chill out so ...

At the 2025 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Dr. Zhang Kifeng, founder of Guangzhou-based Kaiwa Technology, unveiled what he called the world’s first humanoid pregnancy robot, a machine designed to ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped the metabolic changes that different parts of the body go through during a primate’s pregnancy. The results suggest that pregnancy-related conditions such as ...

What if robots could give birth? That future is closer than you think. In a bold announcement at the 2025 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Dr. Zhang Qifeng, founder of Kaiwa Technology, unveiled ...

During pregnancy, the body goes through a remarkable transformation, so it should come as no surprise that the brain does too. However, the extent of these changes has not been well studied. Now, in ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells. When you ...

A story circulating on social media this week featured a seemingly made-up scientist who is developing an equally imaginary "pregnancy robot." Virality ensued. When you purchase through links on our ...

In a development that completely demolished the line between robotics and reproductive science, China’s Kaiwa Technology made headlines this week for saying it had introduced humanoid robots equipped ...

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