A Spanish startup has managed to use a sperm-injecting robot to fertilise human eggs, successfully resulting in the birth of two healthy babies.
Engineers with no experience in fertility medicine used a Sony PlayStation 5 controller to get the robotic needle to fertilise more than a dozen eggs.
Healthy embryos from this experiment have now resulted in the birth of two baby girls — the first people to be born from a ‘robot’ fertilisation.
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