VICEさんのインスタグラム写真 - (VICEInstagram)「Welcome to 2023: we’ve figured out how to make babies using a laptop and a PS5 controller.⁠ ⁠ Last spring, engineers from the company Overture Life used a PlayStation controller to position a robotic needle containing a single sperm cell into a human egg. Their sperm-injecting robot was then used to fertilize more than a dozen eggs.⁠ ⁠ The result? Healthy embryos, say the researchers—and now two baby girls, who the team claim are the first humans born after being “conceived” by a “robot”.⁠ ⁠ “Think of a box where sperm and eggs go in, and an embryo comes out five days later,” says Santiago Munné, the prize-winning geneticist and chief innovation officer at the Spanish company. He believes that automated IVF would be vastly cheaper than its average US price tag of $20,000. ⁠ ⁠ Currently, 500,000 babies are born through IVF globally each year, but most people who need the help can’t afford existing fertility procedures. So what would sperm-injecting robots mean for the world? A lot more babies.」4月27日 0時50分