“Robotic Artificial Insemination Achieved with PlayStation Controller & Its Implications on Embryologists”

The technology It does not stop evolving and more and more tools are added to carry out different activities, with the medicine as one of the disciplines most interested in this development. The last big push has to do with the artificial insemination and the use of a control de Playstation to perform the procedure.

As strange as it may seem, doctors from the clinic New Hope Fertility Center of NY achieved this feat through the support of the company Overture Lifewho developed a series of tools to build the first device capable of performing a robotic artificial insemination.

The control used was a Dualsense of the Japanese video game console, Playstation 5which served as the command to carry out the fertilization of the ovule, but the most relevant thing about the event is that it was all thanks to a new project and the creation of a robot made with a microscopea mechanized needle, a small petri dish, and a laptop.

This innovative and historical practice has already given results and now there are the first two girls conceived through a artificial insemination by robota procedure that reduces costs and could begin to make this type of fertilizationsince it also has the objective of beginning the automation of this procedure in vitro.

This new era of artificial insemination has brought to the table a new discussion in the companies dedicated to this branch of medicine, because according to the MIT Universitydifferent companies maintain that it could become a fully automated process in the future, which could leave a vacuum for thousands of embryologists who manipulate sperm and eggs manually.

MIT Technology ensures that there are around six companies that are allocating their resources to this type, in search of drive that development and be pioneers in the sale of a robot that can replace embryologists; however, the fully automatic process still seems a long way off, as the process also requires specialties, from sperm injectionegg freezing and even embryo breeding.

Specifically, the artificial insemination It consists of the introduction of a prepared semen sample into the uterus of a woman, which substantially increases the possibility that a pregnancy will be conceived, especially when compared to a woman. intercourse.

This sperm sample is processed in a laboratory and requires specialists called embryologists, who also perform ovarian stimulation and the delicate deposit of semen.