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- Conceivable Life Sciences is building robots and AI models to automate crucial parts of IVF.
- The robots, though in the prototype stage, can suck sperm into needles and place them into eggs.
- The cofounders say automation will challenge an industry rife with arbitrary decision-making.
Normally, in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, is a manual affair.
A doctor performs a small surgery, places the patient's eggs in a test tube, and passes the tube through a little window to a lab, where a scientist combines them with sperm.