The eerie concept video shows human farms with hundreds of birthing pods growing babies

A maternity ward that can grow up to 30,000 babies a year inside artificial wombs could solve the problem of the world’s low birth rate, which Elon Musk believes that it is the greatest threat to human civilization.

A new concept video takes viewers on a tour of The EctoLife Artificial Womb Facility, where hundreds of fetuses sit in transparent pods that are temperature-controlled and have an umbilical cord to receive oxygen and nutrients.

Hashem Al-Ghaili, a film producer and biotechnologist, created a realistic film for start a conversation about such technologies which would enable women who have had their uterus removed to give birth, reduce the number of premature births and fight against population decline

The process would use in vitro fertilization, allowing parents to select the ‘most viable and genetically superior embryo,’ which can also be genetically modified to adjust traits, including physical strength and the elimination of hereditary diseases.

Although the video is a concept, Al-Ghaili said it is based on ’50 years of ground-breaking scientific research by researchers around the world’, and such birth pods could be widespread ‘just decades’ from now.

A video game like an advertisement for EctoLife, which ‘enables infertile couples to conceive a child’.

The facility has 75 labs, each with up to 400 growth pods designed to replicate actual conditions in a mother’s womb and includes sensors that monitor the baby’s vitals.

These include heart rate, moderate temperature and oxygen saturation.

The pods are also equipped with an AI-powered camera that continuously scans the fetus for potential genetic abnormalities and monitors the entire growth process.

Parents get an app that plays live footage of their baby inside the capsule, along with a display of vitals.

The video also states that parents can record messages to be played inside the artificial womb and create music playlists for their babies.

While the video focuses on improving birth rates, it also notes that the birthing farm is aimed at women who fear pregnancy because of the pain and recovery needed after giving birth.

‘Say goodbye to labor pain and muscle contractions,’ says the video’s narrator.

‘EctoLife provides a safe, painless alternative to help you deliver your baby stress-free.’

The delivery process requires parents to press a button on the capsule.

Amniotic fluid flows from the inside and the artificial womb opens, allowing the parents to hold their baby for the first time.

The video, which looks like a scene from the 1999 movie The Matrix, is just a concept for now, but could be used in the future as the world faces population decline.

Musk said during a Wall Street Journal event in December 2021 that “civilization will collapse” if the decline in birth rates continues.

Although the comment was made when the global population stood at 7.9 billion – recently hitting eight billion – the tech mogul warned that the world desperately needs people.

Birth rates in developed countries have been falling for years, which has affected the overall rate.

The average woman had two and a half children by 2020, compared to five 50 years ago.

The rates are even lower in the UK (1.74) and the US (1.77). Higher education and contraception, as well as more women entering the workplace, are believed to be behind the worrying trends.

Birthing caps would be an alternative for couples with infertility and those who are thinking about carrying a child on their own.

And the new video might seem like a revelation, artificial wombs have been talked about in the scientific community since 1923, when they were first presented at a lecture by an English biologist.

Then in 1955, scientists introduced a container that would grow a fetus.

This design contained amniotic fluid, a device for connecting to the umbilical cord, blood pumps, an artificial kidney and a water heater.

However, technology is advancing and scientists are considering more options that can be expanded from a pod or container.

In 2020, researchers succeeded in creating a viable artificial uterus in rabbits.

Anthony Atala of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine and colleagues made uterine tissue grown from rabbit uterine cells, which were seeded onto a biodegradable scaffold.

This broad approach, pioneered by the team, has previously been used in humans to restore the function of tubular organs such as the urethra and specific hollow organs, including the bladder and vagina.

Implantation of bioengineering scaffolds in 14 rabbitsresearchers have shown that artificial wombs can create native tissue-like structures necessary to support normal reproduction.

Six months after female rabbits were implanted with scaffolds, the animals were allowed to naturally mate with fertile males.

“Rabbits with cell-implanted constructs had normal pregnancies in the reconstructed uterine segments,” said study author Renata Magalhaes of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

‘This research introduces new ways to potentially create tissue substitutes derived from the patient’s own cells to treat uterine defects.’

Engineered babies are also not the stuff of science fiction, as experts work tirelessly to perfect the procedure.

In 2015, Chinese scientists acknowledged that they had altered the genes of human embryos for the first time, when they tweaked the gene responsible for β-thalassemia, a potentially fatal blood disorder, using a germline editing technique known as CRISPR/Cas9.

CRISPR technology precisely changes targeted parts of the genetic code.

But the researchers said their results reveal ‘serious obstacles’ to using the technique on human embryos.

The announcement confirmed rumors that some researchers had conducted ethically questionable genetic experiments.

Some scientists have reacted with horror to the idea, fearing that it could be misused to allow parents to ‘choose’ the genes to pass on to their grandchildren.

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