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TheresJustNoMoney

What would it take to make these fetal growth pods (AKA artificial wombs) work flawlessly? How many years away are they from a practical-working commercial model getting developed?

Would this be the boon and godsend for infertile couples anywhere? As well as anyone too old to safely bear children?

Concept image of fetal growth pods / artificial wombs.

What will it take to make them work right? In what year(s) will they become available for future parents anywhere?

 

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[–]mrn253 1 point 5 months ago 

Its more scifi than anything else.
probably hundreds of billions and when it should ever be a thing i wont be alive anymore.

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[–]Joe18067 1 point 5 months ago 

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter, too
From the bottom of a long glass tube.

Seriously, this is something to be feared since an authoritarian government could use this to create soldiers.

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[–]TheresJustNoMoney[S] 1 point 5 months ago 

I think we can have Soldiers made out of humanoid robots, like the droids from the first episode of Star wars. Soldiers created from artificial wombs will probably still be able to feel pain, but not droids.

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