Conceivable Wants Embryo-Making Robots to Transform IVF Industry (1)

In the posh Polanco neighborhood of Mexico City, in a building tucked behind a Japanese restaurant, a sleek medical office upstairs had something new on display behind glass: a 17-foot-long, 4,500-pound robotic assembly line called the AURA. It’s an artificial-intelligence-powered fertility lab, the only mechanical system in the world that can achieve all the steps in making a human embryo—at least, the steps that can be done outside a woman’s body.

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The AURA has six stations that use robot arms to maneuver pipettes and petri dishes. It ...