Conceived By Robots: Scientists can now help make babies using a surgical robot and a PS5 controller

With the kind of technological advancements we have made in the field of robotics, and just how precise surgical robots have become, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that scientists have revolutionised how human beings are being conceived. In the US, where Overture Life are based out of, IVF treatments start at $20,000 for one implantation session and then go up from there. Last spring, engineers from Overture Life used a surgical robot, that was controlled using a PS5 controller and used it to insert a robotic needle with a single, live sperm cell into a human egg. As a result, they had several healthy embryos and now, months later two newborn girls, whom the team claims are the first people to be “conceived” by a “robot." “Imagine a box where sperm and eggs go in and an embryo comes out five days later,” says Santiago Munné, the Spanish company’s prize-winning scientist and chief innovation officer.