CNBCTV18 - A ground-breaking development in fertility medicine has been made as the first babies conceived with sperm-injecting robot have been born. Read more
A special robot, developed in Barcelona and shipped to a clinic in New York City, named New Hope Fertility Centre. autonomously penetrated the egg and dropped off a single sperm cell, fertilising more than a dozen eggs in the process.
The resulting healthy embryos have led to the birth of two baby girls, who are the first people born after fertilization by a robot.
This development has been heralded as a step towards automating in vitro fertilization (IVF) and potentially making the procedure more common and affordable.
The main objective of automating IVF is to make the process more widely available as only 5,00,000 children are born through IVF globally each year. Most people who require fertility assistance do not have access to fertility medicine or cannot afford it.
The automation of certain aspects of IVF, such as injecting sperm, freezing eggs or nurturing embryos, could eventually lead to radical innovations, such as gene editing or artificial wombs.
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