{"id":166436,"date":"2023-06-26T08:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-first-babies-conceived-with-a-sperm-injecting-robot-have-been-born"},"modified":"2023-06-26T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:22:25","slug":"the-first-babies-conceived-with-a-sperm-injecting-robot-have-been-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-first-babies-conceived-with-a-sperm-injecting-robot-have-been-born","title":{"rendered":"The first babies conceived with a sperm-injecting robot have been born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-babies-conceived-with-a-sperm-injecting-robot-have-been-born.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last spring, engineers in Barcelona packed up the sperm-injecting robot they\u2019d designed and sent it by DHL to New York City. They followed it to a clinic there, called New Hope Fertility Center, where they put the instrument back together, assembling a microscope, a mechanized needle, a tiny petri dish, and a laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Then one of the engineers, with no real experience in fertility medicine, used a Sony PlayStation 5 controller to position a robotic needle. Eyeing a human egg through a camera, it then moved forward on its own, penetrating the egg and dropping off a single sperm cell. Altogether, the robot was used to fertilize more than a dozen eggs.<\/p>\n<p>The result of the procedures, say the\u2026 More.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Meet the startup companies trying to engineer a desktop fertility machine. If they succeed, it could make IVF cheaper and more widespread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last spring, engineers in Barcelona packed up the sperm-injecting robot they\u2019d designed and sent it by DHL to New York City. They followed it to a clinic there, called New Hope Fertility Center, where they put the instrument back together, assembling a microscope, a mechanized needle, a tiny petri dish, and a laptop. Then one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}