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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Xiao Zhan cut, rain and snow on the way, totem wolf clues delivery! CTOnews.com, April 28 (Xinhua)-- the New Hope Fertility Center in New York has welcomed two special girls who are the first IVF babies to be born using "sperm robot" fertilization technology. This cutting-edge technology is expected to reduce the cost of IVF and enable more infertile couples to realize their dreams of giving birth.

Sperm Robot, developed and designed by Overture Life, a Spanish startup, has raised nearly $37 million (CTOnews.com Note: about 256 million yuan) from investors such as Susan Wojcicki, former CEO of YouTube. Santiago Munet, the company's chief innovation officer and award-winning geneticist, said: "[IVF] has to be cheaper. If any doctor can do it, so much the better." "imagine a box in which sperm and eggs go in and an embryo comes out five days later," he said. "

The sperm Robot is a micro-mechanical needle that can be controlled by a Sony PS5 handle that can penetrate an egg under a microscope and send a single sperm cell into it to complete the fertilization process. This technology can replace the expensive and complex in vitro fertilization (IVF) process that currently requires professional embryologists to operate, and can be operated by people with no practical experience in the field of reproductive medicine. It is reported that at present, a test-tube baby in the United States costs more than 20,000 US dollars. The goal of sperm injection robots is to greatly reduce costs through more and more automated processes, and to make the preparation of fertilized eggs more simple and accurate.

In this experiment, the "sperm robot" successfully fertilized more than a dozen eggs, developed into healthy embryos, and eventually gave birth to two baby girls. The operator of the sperm robot is not an expert with experience in reproductive medicine, but Eduard Alba, a mechanical engineering student, who told the MIT Technical Review: "I was calm." at that moment I just thought, 'this is just another experiment.' "

The parents of one of the girls were unbelievable about the technological breakthrough: "it's incredible, isn't it? until now, this kind of thing has been done by hand." However, some critics believe that the "sperm robot" does not solve the problem of egg aging, which is one of the main reasons for IVF failure.

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