The EctoLife — The World’s First Artificial Womb Facility.

A German molecular biologist Hashem Al-Ghaili unveiled a new concept for the world’s first artificial womb facility, EctoLife, which could incubate up to 30000 babies a year.

The EctoLife Artificial Womb Facility envisages a controversial new way to be pregnant, with the baby growing in an idealized, but completely inhuman environment: transparent "growth pods" arranged by their hundreds in human baby farming operations.

To be clear from the outset: this is just a concept at this stage, the brainchild of Berlin-based "producer, filmmaker and science communicator" Hashem Al-Ghaili.

There are no immediate plans to build an EctoLife facility, this is merely a piece of science fiction Al-Ghaili has extrapolated from the current state of fertility research.

The AI-powered fictional complex offers futures parents a presumably safer alternative to natural childbirth, eliminating the often fatal complications associated with it. In an interview Al-Ghaili revealed that he believes the EctoLife concept would replace natural birth in the future.

A total of 75 fully functional laboratories can be found within one building, according to the press release. Up to four hundred artificial wombs, or “growth pods,” can be housed in each cutting-edge laboratory. Every pod is made to be just like the conditions inside the mother’s uterus.

To ensure and support healthy growth, babies are steadily and sustainably ‘maintained’ by two central bioreactors. The first bioreactor pumps nutrients, vital hormones, antibodies, growth factors, oxygen, and an amniotic-like liquid solution through an artificial umbilical cord.