Most hospital training labs use basic dummies or simple mannequins to teach medical skills. Students practice procedures, learn techniques and move on to real patients later. But a new childbirth ...

In what may become one of the most controversial advances in medical technology, a Chinese research team has developed a humanoid robot equipped with a fully functional artificial womb, capable of ...

VALLEJO, Calif. — She's given birth in Afghanistan, California and dozens of points in between. Her name is Noelle, and she's a lifelike, pregnant robot used in increasing numbers of medical schools ...

Would you use a surrogate robot to carry your child from conception to birth? In a Live Science poll, we asked readers if they would use a so-called "pregnancy robot" in response to false news of the ...