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IVF robots outperform human doctors in embryo success

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The 'ART Pipetting Robot for the IVF Laboratory' (APRIL) uses a pre-programed mechanical arm with a lab-grade eyedropper-like tool, or pipette, protected within a glass enclosure.

Trials by Dr Williams' team, published this August , showed that IVF treatment by APRIL increased the total number of usable human embryos by 4.2 percent .

Results arrive in the heat of an ever-tightening US presidential race in which Republican candidate Donald Trump has declared himself 'the father of IVF '.

The concept of automated, machine-tooled IVF of human beings was first proposed publicly by Aldous Huxley in his 1932 science fiction novel, 'Brave New World' Dr Edwards ' first success in 1978 , with the birth of the world's first 'test tube baby,' Louise Brown , July 25 .

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