Finally, I can clone a Duncan!
Does it have GPU datacenters? No?
Then not clanker.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.
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
Wish my mother was a clanker.
Cool, now we can make orphans with technology!
Hopefully some bright mind will be able to merge this with the crushing machine and we can enter a new golden age of technology.
Or, you know, not put mothers through the painful, dangerous, and potentially lethal ordeal known as pregnancy.
Okay, but this is Chinese technology, so it can only be used for evil
I’ll never forgive China for inventing gun powder
Ah yes, break the bonds that bind family and ultimately society together to “protect women”. It is only lethal in places with shitty medical car…okay I see where you are going with this.
break the bonds that bind family
Nine months in utero counts for more than your first 18 years of life?
I’ll need to break my adopted brother the terrible news
Sorry to break reality to you and him.
Also, we are talking about an artificial womb so you wouldn’t have a mother.
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.
The Hallmark of the Maoist Revolution was guaranting every citizen owned the land they lived on.
Also what kicked off the Tianamen Square riots. Deng’s privatization reforms went against the Maoist principles of public ownership, in pursuit of a modern urban industrial model. And the public backlash erupted into street fighting in the capital that killed tens of thousands of people.
Likewise, the fall of the American empire started with Reagan
A bit early to close the book on American Empire. It took over a century for the UK to come off it’s Victorian Era peak. Along the way, they created modern computers and jet engines, which they used to commit multiple genocides.
This is a promising way to end surrogacy abuse in the 3rd world. I hope that future is realized.
True that, but there’s a long way until that shit is cheaper than real humans
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
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.
letting only the rich use them.
Main selling point would be how much easier it’d be to disown their loser offspring.
Just throw it into the recycler and start again /s
Never noticed before how nice the butt on the next human battery is…
Same actually, dayum.
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
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.
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”
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%
More fetish potential
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.
The obsession with bipedal robots is great. It fulfills the urge to reproduce without having to reproduce. So once we have those, we can stop having children and end this stupid species.
Thinking the stupidity meme won’t jump from one species to the next is just a lazy cop out, regardless of the species we just have to stop being stupid and there’s no one single switch that can be flipped for that
I am pretty sure the picture is not representative of the actual device.
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.
you laugh but don’t the robo taxis make laps around the blocks empty just so they won’t have to rent too much parking space during down time?
People who watched too many movies.
I’m guessing there need to be a bunch of sensors to monitor the foetus’s growth. I’m also guessing by ‘robot’ they mean ‘machine with some decision making and executing capability’ and not ‘machine that looks like a human’.
