A viral Chinese pregnancy robot claim has been debunked. Here’s why the story was fake and what real science says about artificial wombs.

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The American Red Cross urges donors to make an appointment to give lifesaving blood or platelets. Donors of all types, ...

Artificial wombs, devices that can gestate human embryos outside the body, have shifted from speculative fiction to the brink of medical reality. Recently, a Chinese firm made headlines by announcing ...

As the boundaries of reproductive medicine are continually pushed, is the development of a "pregnancy robot" that far off?

Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan's 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass ...

I is transforming the way we work - could it also reshape what makes us human? In this quick and insightful talk, evolutionary anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy explores how the human brain was shaped ...

Robin is a therapeutic robot programed to act like a 7-year-old girl as it travels around nursing homes and hospitals’ ...

MicroFactory has more than 100 preorders for its general-purpose tabletop robotic factory, which it hopes to start shipping ...

Mercedes’s newest factory companion has four legs and helps keep the plant making Sprinter vans running efficiently. If you’ve ever watched videos of a car factory, you likely know that robots play a ...

With RoboBallet, the complexity of computation also grew with the complexity of the system, but at a far slower rate. (The computations grew linearly with the growing number of tasks and obstacles, ...