In August 2025, Chinese researchers at Kaiwa Technology, led by Dr. Zhang Qifeng, unveiled plans for what has been dubbed the world’s first “pregnancy robot.” Slated for prototype release in 2026 and ...

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 ...

Would you use a surrogate robot to carry your child from conception to birth? In a Live Science poll, we asked readers if they would use a so-called "pregnancy robot" in response to false news of the ...

And then the Chinese robot everyone is -- or will be -- talking about. Brad Spakowitz shows you what the deal is with China’s “pregnancy robot.” Why go through 9 months of pregnancy when a robot can ...