China has invested heavily in robotics. The country is a leader in industrial robots per capita and has just hosted the first ...

In August 2025, a rumor began to spread that a "pregnancy robot" was in development in China. Social media posts and articles circulated with different AI-generated images of such a robot, including ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. False news of a so-called pregnancy robot being developed in China spread across the web this ...

The idea stems from gaps in reproductive healthcare. Infertility rates in China are rising—from 11.9% in 2007 to 18% in 2020, ...

A Guangzhou-based tech company, Kaiwa Technology, has announced plans to unleash the world’s first pregnancy humanoid robot . This is a literal robot designed to grow and deliver a baby. This isn’t ...

Chinese researchers are developing a humanoid robot with an artificial womb designed to replicate the entire human pregnancy process from conception to birth. This ambitious project, though raising ...

Dr. Zhang Qifeng, a PhD at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, leads the project. Unlike an incubator that supports premature babies, this robot would replicate the entire gestational ...

Unitree’s G1 robot endured repeated shoves in a YouTube “violence test,” stunning viewers with its ability to bounce back ...

People aged 65 and older already make up about 15 percent of its 1.4 billion citizens, according to United Nations data.

Figure AI said it had raised more than $1 billion in a funding round that valued the company at $39 billion, making it one of ...

About 500 robot athletes from 16 countries competed in Beijing as the United States and China race each other to shape the ...

A Chinese humanoid robot drew attention at the SCO reception in Tianjin, answering questions from reporters in English, ...