AI Transforms IVF With Automated Embryo Selection

A Longreads feature (March 3, 2026) reports that last year researchers and a private company achieved the first fully automated in vitro fertilization (IVF) birth, followed by 19 more, using predictive AI models and robotics. The piece situates the advance against IVF history since 1978, cites success rates (~27% UK, 2021) and ~13 million IVF births globally, and notes U.S. treatment costs around $60,000.