World First: Pigs Cloned by Robots

River D'Almeida, Ph.D
The Reading Frame
Published in
2 min readJun 11, 2022

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And on his farm he had a pig (cloned entirely by AI).

Photo by cottonbro: https://www.pexels.com/photo/pigs-on-wooden-pigpen-10641996/

No human intervention needed — Chinese artificial intelligence experts have created a technology using robots to clone pigs. Earlier this year, seven piglet clones were born to a surrogate mother using the fully automated technique. The piglets were healthy, leaving researchers to believe that this marks the dawn of a new era in agriculture.

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River D'Almeida, Ph.D
The Reading Frame

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