Kaiwa Technology, based in Guangzhou, announced the ambitious project at the 2025 World Robot Conference in Beijing, saying it aims to provide an alternative for those who wish to avoid human gestation.

In August 2025, a rumor began to spread that a "pregnancy robot" was in development in China. Social media posts and articles circulated with different AI-generated images of such a robot, including varying amounts of details. For example, a Facebook post ( archived) said this robot would cost under 100,000 yuan (less than $14,000):

Unlike an incubator that supports premature babies, this robot would replicate the entire gestational process from conception to delivery.

But even before this month, China has been turning to high-profile events to showcase its tech, including a robot half-marathon and dancing humanoid robots during its Lunar New Year’s Eve TV gala, watched by hundreds of millions of people, according to The New York Times.

Pregnancy robots may sound like something out of science fiction, but they're actually quite real. And they're already creating quite a stir for many reasons.

Besides those performing tasks, the robots on display include ones that play soccer or Chinese chess, as well as historical figures from scientists Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton to Li Bai, considered one of China's greatest poets. Robots, showing perhaps a humanlike tendency, are not infallible.

An event in Beijing drew hundreds of competitors from around the world in what's being described as the first ever Robot Olympics.

“The artificial womb technology is already in a mature stage, and now it needs to be implanted in the robot’s abdomen so that a real person and the robot can interact to achieve pregnancy, allowing the fetus to grow inside,” Qifeng told Chosun Biz.