Automated IVF Lowers Cost

AI‑guided robotics that automate IVF lab work can push down per‑cycle costs and raise success rates by standardizing delicate procedures now done by skilled technicians. If scaled, automation could democratize access to assisted reproduction but also concentrate clinical control in a few deep‑pocketed startups and raise urgent regulatory, consent and parentage questions. — Cheaper, more reliable IVF would reshape fertility markets, family law, and reproductive‑ethics debates while forcing new oversight of automated clinical systems and ownership of reproductive data.