AI is learning to pick the embryo the eye can't.
Computer-vision models score embryo morphology and predict viability from time-lapse imaging — standardizing a judgment that has long varied embryologist to embryologist.
Time-lapse imaging tracks embryo development cell by cell
Watch an embryo grow from fertilization to blastocyst.
The EmbryoScope is a time-lapse incubator with a built-in microscope camera that photographs embryos every 10–20 minutes — allowing embryologists to observe development without removing embryos from the stable incubator environment.
Watch EmbryoScope Video ↗Click to watch on YouTube — EmbryoScope Blastocyst Development
The embryology lab, automated.
Robotics and microfluidics are automating the most delicate steps — ICSI injection, culture, cryopreservation — to cut human variability, improve consistency, and let a single lab safely handle far more cycles.
Conceivable Life Sciences — robotic IVF automation platform
Shrinking the entire IVF lab into a single device.
Miniaturized, self-contained culture systems integrate ovarian stimulation monitoring, egg handling, fertilization, and embryo incubation into one portable unit. The goal: bring IVF-quality embryology to clinics in regions that could never fund a full traditional lab.
Targeted vs. traditional IVF lab build-out
Low-resource clinics in Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia
AI-guided protocols reduce dependence on senior embryologists
"The vision is a plug-and-play fertility unit that a regional hospital can install the way it installs an MRI — not a specialty lab that requires a $2M build-out and a team of embryologists."
— IVF automation industry consensus, 2025
Where surrogacy is legal — and where it isn't.
USA (most states), Canada (altruistic only), UK (altruistic), Australia, Georgia, Ukraine, Greece
Russia (foreigners banned since 2023), Thailand (citizens only), Cambodia (recent ban)
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, China (commercial) — parentage disputes common for citizens born abroad