Original article (in Bosnian) was published on 13/1/2025; Author: Nerma Šehović
What are the claims?
China is developing a robot capable of carrying a pregnancy from conception to birth.
What are the facts?
The story about a Chinese surrogate robot for childbirth is fabricated.
In late 2025 and early 2026, claims circulated on social media that China was developing a robot capable of carrying a pregnancy from conception to delivery (1, 2). In one such Facebook post, conspiracy theorist Nemanja Blagojević shared an image claiming that a Chinese technology company was creating such a robot.
In the post, this alleged technological development was presented as part of a “Jewish” conspiracy aimed at distancing men and women through an “orchestrated gender war”.
WILL CHILDREN BE BORN FROM ROBOTS?
I’m sick and tired of both men and women online pouring out their traumas—how all men or women are the same, playing the role of victims, poor women, or men in a world where women or men are subordinated.
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Maybe we can keep replaying the same broken record for a few more decades about how patriarchy enslaves us, or how women dominate men, but that doesn’t change the fact that the gender war is orchestrated by **ews with the goal of destroying everything beautiful in this world.
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While we debate who is to blame, in China and the United States they are successfully developing technology to produce children from artificial wombs, just as they already manufacture and sell realistic sex robots.
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The entire gender war is mind-programming, a tactic to reduce the population and isolate men and women from one another so they can be an easy consumer mass for globalism. In a few decades, only those with money will have children, and sex with real people will be replaced by masturbation with latex dolls.
These remarks were shared on other Facebook profiles and on the website Epoha. However, the claim that China is developing, or has already developed, a “pregnant robot” has circulated online since August 2025. Stories about this supposed technological breakthrough appeared not only on social media but also in numerous domestic and international media outlets (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). The earliest article about a Chinese robot capable of carrying a pregnancy that we identified was published on the website RT Balkans (formerly known as Russia Today).
The article stated that the project was led by Dr. Zhang Qifeng and that a prototype for commercial use would be available in 2026 at a price of USD 4.000. The source of this information was reportedly an interview with Qifeng on the social network Douyin.
Other media outlets reported that the research was being conducted by Kaiwa Technology, founded by Qifeng and that he worked at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
A Fabricated Technological Breakthrough
The story about a robot capable of carrying a pregnancy was published in August 2025 by well-known outlets such as the New York Post, Daily Mail and Vice. However, this is a fabricated invention, as established by fact-checking platforms from the region including Istinomer, Raskrinkavanje (Montenegro) and Lupa, as well as international fact-checking outlets Snopes and LeadStories.
For its analysis, Snopes contacted Nanyang Technological University (NTU), which responded that Zhang Qifeng does not work at the university, did not earn a doctorate there, and that the institution is not aware of any project developing a surrogate robot.
As noted in an analysis published by Raskrinkavanje (Montenegro) on 4 September, 2025, the company “Kajiwa Robotics”, founded by Zhang Qifeng, does exist and has a website, but it does not state that it is developing a pregnancy robot.
On 18 August, 2025, Chinese media reported a statement by Qifeng in which he denied claims about developing a surrogate robot, stating that the story stemmed from a rumor fueled by a misinterpretation of an earlier interview about entrepreneurship and emphasizing that his company had never conducted such research.
Thus, the story about a Chinese robot capable of carrying a pregnancy is fabricated. No such robot has been developed or is being developed. These claims were later corrected in a follow-up article by RT Balkans itself.
Conspiracy Theories About Jews and the “Gender War”
The terms “gender war” or “war between the sexes” are mostly used online to describe conflicts of opinion about gender roles, feminism, and social issues affecting women and/or men. In this framing, one side of the “conflict” consists of feminists advocating gender equality, while the other includes those who promote a return to traditional “values” and interpret equality as a threat to men and their rights or, in more radical right-wing circles, as a threat to society as a whole (1, 2, 3).
In the Facebook post by Nemanja Blagojević, demands for equality are portrayed as a “battle” between men and women, something inherently opposed to men’s interests, and framed as part of a broader conspiracy to destroy “everything beautiful”.
Claims that a supposed gender war is deliberately orchestrated by Jews to destroy humanity are a version of a long-standing conspiracy theory previously addressed by Raskrinkavanje in analyses available here and here. As explained in those analyses, social media in recent years has seen viral claims that feminism i.e., the fight for women’s rights is the work of secretive elites, whether the Rockefellers or “Satanists”, seeking to destroy the traditional family, remove men from society, or similar outcomes.
In reality, there is no evidence that such a plan exists or that feminism is part of it. Portraying the struggle for gender equality as a malicious conspiracy against humanity fundamentally deepens inequality and gender-based discrimination.
Therefore, just as there is no pregnant robot that will give birth instead of women in 2026, there is no global conspiracy to destroy humanity through a so-called “gender war”.
Based on the facts, we rate the claim that a “pregnancy robot” was being developed in China, initially published by RT Balkans, as fake news. All subsequent reports of this claim are rated as fake news spreading.We rate the claim that efforts toward gender equality, described as a “gender war”, are part of a conspiracy orchestrated by Jews to establish population control as a conspiracy theory.
