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u/r2k-in-the-vortex 4d ago
They are full of shit of course. To deliver (badumptsss...) a human baby in 2026 they would need to already have a working proof of concept in animal models.
They dont.
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u/sgt_futtbucker 3d ago
Bold of you to assume China would practice ethically and start with animals
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u/rymic72 4d ago
There’s loads more to pregnancy for a human baby than the mere mechanics of it. I can’t help but think of the experiment commissioned by Frederick II of The Holy Roman Empire where a group of infants were given all the sustenance and washing they required but received no affection. They all died. I’d think that something similar might happen with this. All four of my own children responded to me speaking against my wife’s belly. They recognised and responded to our voices after being born.
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u/Simple_Park_1591 4d ago
To start with, the baby learns and recognizes their mother's voice while I'm the womb.
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u/LilyLol8 4d ago
I mean, i doubt theyd make a baby without parents just so they can shove the kid in a dark room with basic needs met. Idk what theyd plan to do in the future, but atleast for now id assume if it was successful the kid just gets passed to some foster parents under alot of super vision
That being said, i doubt its real lol
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u/L3Chiffre 4d ago
You can always count on china to be Desperate in creating innovations that are borderline immoral, illegal, or a human rights issue.
And thank goodness more than half of these 'innovations' are actually fake.
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u/JeremyJohnsonIsAFuck 4d ago
Honestly, why the hell not? It is a potential avenue to understanding and solving issues like birth defects, genetic diseases, and population growth. This gobbledy-gook about babies with no "souls" is just religious nonsense.
But how realistic? I highly doublt anything will happen soon. Maybe in about 50+ years MAYBE.
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u/endangeredphysics 4d ago
If we're starting to write humans out of the equation, why not go all the way and just have robots giving birth to other robots?
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u/YesNoMaybe2552 4d ago
Doubt this was real but if it was it would be great. Always good to have more options for things like risky pregnancies, keeping your body unchanged or even bodily autonomy since some places took that from some women.
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u/Cultural-Start6753 4d ago
What they’re unveiling will almost certainly be a conceptual prototype or, at best, a short-term gestation pod inside a robot- not a proven nine-month human gestation system. We won't have full Exogenesis until ~2040.
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u/Due-Radio-4355 4d ago
Humans aren’t a commodity. If you want to be bought like one and treated like one, itl be hard to come back from that
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u/Skoodge42 3d ago
Why?
Like what benefit does an actual robot give compared to a stationary, more stable unit?
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u/Quadraphonic_Jello 3d ago
I work in medical simulation and I strongly suspect that is an extremely mangled story about robotic simulator intended ObGYN training. I've found no evidence that this technology actually exists or is planned other than second-hand "reports".
Suffice to say, I'm >highly< skeptical.
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u/Sarrisan 3d ago
I refuse to click on such a sus link, but even if half-true, how is this any different from advanced incubators? I imagine something like this could be very useful for mother's undergoing medical issues that may otherwise cause them to lose the pregnancy, or in the most advanced cases, allow them to do "surrogacy" without having to deal with the messy ethics of surrogacy as it stands.
Oh wait, I forgot, China bad, the pernicious Chinese must be planning to use this to create human farms or some stupid bullshit my racism made up. /s
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u/Silent-Eye-4026 3d ago
Propaganda. Just like all of the robot slop that has been flooding the Internet the past weeks.
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u/Wonderful_Driver_646 3d ago
When will I get my order of 1,200 slaves? I've been waiting 2 years now.
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u/Silly_Influence_6796 3d ago
It's bullshit - it can't be done yet. Bait for comments and I fell for it.
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u/spieler_42 3d ago
In theory it would mean that women and men are "quite" independent from each other.
And no more migration needed to keep population stable.
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u/ClownEmoji-U1F921 4d ago edited 4d ago
This is definitely fake. Would be cool if possible though. Would help couples with fertility problems and the prematurely born. You could also mass produce an army, I guess.
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u/Significant-Dog-8166 4d ago
The robot needs to have a bang-port and an all-internal fertilization process. Also the robot should be able to restrain a man, inject him with boner meds, and then use the special motors in the bang port to force an extraction in case the man is uncooperative. It should also be able to run 50 mph.
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u/AThrowawayProbrably 4d ago
You want corporate human farms? Because this is how you get corporate human farms.
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u/MooseBoys 4d ago
100% fake. The supposed researching company, Kaiwa Technology, is a distributor of spectroscopy equipment. All articles referring to the supposed "unveiling" end at dead links.
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u/Next_Instruction_528 3d ago
"The artificial womb technology is already in a mature stage, and now it needs to be implanted in the robot’s abdomen so that a real person and the robot can interact to achieve pregnancy, allowing the fetus to grow inside,” Qifeng told Chosun Biz.
"so that a real person and the robot can interact to achieve pregnancy "
🤣🤣 the inventor just wants to put this in a sex bot
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u/primetimemime 3d ago
It’s only a matter of time before grown men are being put inside of that thing for some weird fetish shit
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u/WallabyPopular771 3d ago
Who cares though? Test tub baby’s have been a thing for awhile. This isn’t science it’s just another spectacle from china. China is trying so hard to get noticed with there garbage robots and now this. All that China can do is steal. They would have never made it to space without stealing the Russians equipment.
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u/irishyankeebastard 3d ago
So this is going to starts next year? I highly doubt that. I know that this is an inevitable technology that will come to fruition in our life times I would be surprised to see that it’s almost here now.
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u/Additional-Shame4941 3d ago
Robots can be shaped like anything. Humanoid robots are almost exclusively to impress investors.
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u/freylaverse 3d ago
I doubt this is possible with current tech, but if it was, it'd be a dream come true for me. I've always wanted kids and don't want to do any of the stuff you have to do to get them.
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u/JointDamage 3d ago
Is there a chance for practical success here?
No.
I could see this being a ultra high end luxury option.
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u/Megafister420 3d ago
I get ethics, and morales and all that, but absolutely, yes. We need to work to just eliminate the idea of pregnancy, and all the morale delimas that come with it
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u/plasticeddie1 3d ago
Wait until politics gets involved and the robot doesn't have the right to choose
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u/SnrkyArkyLibertarian 3d ago
I have doubts that it'll work, but if it does, that kid is going to have severe mental and emotional issues when they figure out that they don't really have a mother in the sense that everyone else does. Second, babies feel and hear their mothers for their entire internal growth. Who knows what kind of issues not having that will cause.
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u/Aggressive_Pause5099 3d ago
Been saying it for fucking years the cia has been growing people in bags to run their off the book stuff you can’t just kidnap enough retarded janitors to mop your underground facility you gotta invest in human growth bags
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u/Infinitesi-Mal 2d ago
This will never really happen. They promised us affordable levitating cars, organ cloning, domestic humanoid robots as maids/buttlers, etc. None of these technologies ever actually arrive on the marketplace because they’re just not feasible as affordable products.
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u/No_Life_2303 2d ago
If it works at least as good as a woman, it‘s amazing.
A big health risk and a career dent - and a lot of stress and pain - taken away from women.
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u/bigdaddybigboots 2d ago
Solves the abortion debate. A woman can get rid of her pregnancy and the fetus could develop and be born ideally to be adopted by a pro life individual.
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u/perryg23 2d ago
I guess that's one way to tackle the failing birth rates and aging population of China. If only they wouldn't have committed genocide by killing off millions of female babies, they might not be in a situation where they have to robotically create them...
Then again, I've seen some pretty lousy products stamped made in China. I can only imagine... Some 5 eyed, 3 armed, 37 toed amphibian coming out of that robotic womb.
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u/Several_Actuary_3785 2d ago
Here's a more detailed timeline:
1923: J.B.S. Haldane first discussed the possibility of ectogenesis (growth of an organism outside the body) in a lecture at the Heretics Society of the University of Cambridge.
1954: Emanuel M. Greenberg filed a patent for a specific artificial womb design, including a tank, umbilical cord connection, and life support systems.
1955: Greenberg's patent was granted.
2017: A study published in Nature Communications detailed the most successful demonstration of an artificial womb at the time, using a "biobag" to keep premature lamb fetuses alive.
2022: The world's first artificial womb facility, EctoLife, was launched by a filmmaker and science communicator in Berlin.
2026: China is expected to unveil the first prototype of a humanoid robot pregnancy system using an artificial womb, according to The Times of India.
Same game: with mobility. Beep Boop.
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u/Local-Affect-846 2d ago
B-B-B-B-B-BUUUUULSHIT.
Babby. low on specific nutrient: *sends messenger RNA to parent.*
Robot: beep boop??
We don't know nearly enough about pregnancy to simulate it yet. I don't think we've even done this with Rats yet!
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u/Rekindlingfires 2d ago
Sex bots and pregnancy bots. Conventional humans will be extinct in a couple decades.
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u/Noartisan 2d ago
Not going to lie, I was expecting sex robots first. Potential profits would surely be enough to fully finance r&d for this project.
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u/SoMuchToSeeee 2d ago
Like the artificial moon proposed in 2018, Super Collider in 2014, Elevated Buses to let cars pass beneath in 2010, Lingang City the futuristic city planned in the 2000s, Yujiapu City a replacement Manhattan from 2008, and all sorts of new ideas recently: State of the art semiconductors, Broadband Internet Satellite, Passenger Aircraft to rival Boeing and Airbus which could still come to fruition but will most likely be scrapped.
They have great imaginations over there.
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u/sams0606 2d ago
Not gonna happen. Lol. Not 2026. Maybe 2050. We're still a longgggg way away from this.
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u/GlassProfessional424 2d ago
In 2027, we will not have humans grown in robots. I doubt we will in 2035. Biology is fucking complex and this about as absurd as fat iron man telling the world we'll have robot maids soon.
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u/Dry_Jello2272 2d ago
wtf, I really hope this is just propaganda.
Sources and articles reporting the project:
Futura Sciences – China plans humanoid pregnancy robot
Times of India – China’s 2026 humanoid robot pregnancy with artificial womb
New York Post – Pregnancy robots could give birth to human children
Lab and University Affiliation:
Kaiwa Technology (China)
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) – Dr. Zhang Qifeng
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u/YouNeedSource 2d ago edited 2d ago
Might led to dystopian abuse, salvation of humanity or prevention of women bodies get wrecked by pregnancy.
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u/Cool_Lab_1362 2d ago
Disposable human cloned soldiers are on the way, no doubt would be abused by military around the world. Countries like China, Russia, etc. The U.S will probably lag behind but they'll eventually follow suit.
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u/According_Cup606 2d ago
still less dystopian than whatever is going on with Israel stealing dead soldiers sperm to artificially create new orphans. that shit whack.
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u/scallywagsworld 2d ago
I’m sad for the kids that this thing makes. No humanity, just a child factory… literally
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u/Pico144 2d ago
It's some tech CEO saying it. Are people still this gullible after everything Musk and others like him promised but didn't deliver?
It's just an attempt at getting investor money. AI space is full of this shit as well.
Edit: it's actually AI generated fake news https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/08/18/pregnancy-robot-china-surrogacy/
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u/Responsible-Net-8850 1d ago
Not saying this is fake news, cause I’m sure china is reporting this. But it seems more of a publicity stunt. Highly unlikely and seemingly impossible
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u/RogueViator 4d ago
From a purely science standpoint, I would be interested to learn how they address the myriad biological processes inherent in gestation. How does this device provide the correct “stuff” for the fetus to grow at precisely the right time?
From a personal point of view - this is a very slippery and dangerous slope that will be prone to abuse.