Chinese scientists create AI nanny to look after babies in artificial womb
>Researchers in Suzhou have developed an AI system able to monitor and take care of embryos as they grow into fetuses in the lab
>An artificial womb for fetuses to safely grow in, and a robotic nanny to monitor and take care of them.
>Researchers in Suzhou, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province, say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that can monitor and take care of embryos as they grow into fetuses in an artificial womb environment.
>This AI nanny is looking after a large number of animal embryos for now, they said in findings published in the domestic peer-reviewed Journal of Biomedical Engineering last month.
>But the same technology could eliminate the need for a woman to carry her baby, allowing the fetus to grow more safely and efficiently outside her body, the paper says.
>The artificial womb, or “long-term embryo culture device”, is a container where they have mouse embryos growing in a line of cubes filled with nutritious fluids, says the team led by professor Sun Haixuan at the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
>Earlier, the development process of each embryo had to be observed, documented and adjusted manually – a labour-intensive task that became unsustainable as the scale of the research increased.
>The robotic system or “nanny” now created can monitor the embryos in unprecedented detail, as it moves up and down the line around the clock, the research paper says.
>AI technology helps the machine detect the smallest signs of change on the embryos and fine-tune the carbon dioxide, nutrition and environmental inputs.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3165325/chinese-scientists-create-ai-nanny-look-after-babies-artificial
>Researchers in Suzhou have developed an AI system able to monitor and take care of embryos as they grow into fetuses in the lab
>An artificial womb for fetuses to safely grow in, and a robotic nanny to monitor and take care of them.
>Researchers in Suzhou, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province, say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that can monitor and take care of embryos as they grow into fetuses in an artificial womb environment.
>This AI nanny is looking after a large number of animal embryos for now, they said in findings published in the domestic peer-reviewed Journal of Biomedical Engineering last month.
>But the same technology could eliminate the need for a woman to carry her baby, allowing the fetus to grow more safely and efficiently outside her body, the paper says.
>The artificial womb, or “long-term embryo culture device”, is a container where they have mouse embryos growing in a line of cubes filled with nutritious fluids, says the team led by professor Sun Haixuan at the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, a subsidiary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
>Earlier, the development process of each embryo had to be observed, documented and adjusted manually – a labour-intensive task that became unsustainable as the scale of the research increased.
>The robotic system or “nanny” now created can monitor the embryos in unprecedented detail, as it moves up and down the line around the clock, the research paper says.
>AI technology helps the machine detect the smallest signs of change on the embryos and fine-tune the carbon dioxide, nutrition and environmental inputs.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3165325/chinese-scientists-create-ai-nanny-look-after-babies-artificial
