We contacted The Standard inquiring about the reason for removing the story but did not receive a response by press time.All news reports referred to an inventor supposedly named Zhang Qifeng, who some outlets said had earned a Ph.

China develops a pregnancy robot with an artificial womb, aiming to carry human fetuses to term and offer alternatives to traditional birth.

Homed in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, Zhang said that “The artificial womb technology is already in a mature stage, and now it needs to be implanted in the robot’s abdomen so that a real person and the robot can interact to achieve pregnancy, allowing the fetus to grow inside.”