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Researchers in eastern China’s Suzhou city claim they have successfully developed an artificial intelligence (A.I.) system capable of monitoring the growth of animal embryos inside an artificial womb, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported Monday.
The SCMP based its January 31 report on information from a paper published by Suzhou-based scientists in December 2021 in the Chinese Journal of Biomedical Engineering. Professor Sun Haixuan — based at the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences — lead the team of researchers to develop a robotic system or “nanny” that monitors and provides care for mouse embryos growing into fetuses in a “long-term embryo culture device,” or artificial womb.
Sun described his laboratory as containing a line of several artificial wombs. The A.I. monitor “moves up and down the line around the clock” observing, documenting, and adjusting the development process of each embryo. Before Sun’s team created the robotic “nanny,” its tasks were performed manually by humans. Sun noted that he could increase the scale of his project if he did not need human workers.
