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* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'', [[spoiler:Kira Yamato]] is considered the "Ultimate [[DesignerBabies Coordinator]]" because he was grown in one of these, which means his genetic mods came out exactly as intended because there weren't any outside factors from the mother to influence them. Thus far, he is the only known human being to ever successfully be gestated this way, and more are not likely forthcoming anytime soon, as the facility was a secret one destroyed by a terrorist attack, so the technology is no longer around.
* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', it is stated that because of the reduced gravity in space, pregnancies were particularly dangerous, and so a lot of babies (including Quatre's sisters) were born this way. Eventually, they found some way to make natural pregnancy and birth safe for ''most'' women in the space colonies. [[spoiler:Sadly, [[DeathByChildbirth Quatre's mother was not one of them.]]]]

* ''Literature/BeowulfsChildren'' by Creator/LarryNiven, Creator/JerryPournelle and Creator/StevenBarnes: A key plot element. Tau Ceti is colonized mostly by {{Human Popsicle}}s and their descendants, but artificial wombs were provided just in case the women had trouble conceiving on an alien world. The colonists produced a creche of "Bottle Babies" before settling into producing them the old-fashioned way, and due to cryogenic brain damage never noticed a nasty problem with the tech until almost ''two decades later'' -- the shifting balance of hormonal, nutritional and chemical messages between mother and fetus turns out to be an important part of pregnancy, and trying to consciously arbitrate unconscious body processes by committee (or more properly by several committes, each with its particular ideological, political, or methodological axe to grind)... doesn't work too well. Most of the creche were quickly adopted by the community, but they never gave much thought to the highly intelligent Aaron Tragon instead spending all his time with the ship's computers; because the biochemical stimulation in his bottle was too tame and he never bonded with a family to offset it, he is not only a sociopath, but a ''megalomaniac'' [[spoiler:who ends up killing the primary colony's leader rather than let his splinter colony be abandoned]].

* ''Music/InUtero'' by Music/{{Nirvana}}.

* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'': Although we never see this machine, a key part of the backstory involves taking a fertilized egg from a woman and placing it in an artificial womb, then aging it up to an adult in a little under two months. [[spoiler:That baby is Jack Ryan, the player character]].

* In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' space pirates experimentally expose their embryos to phazon in an attempt to create super soldiers. The embryos that survive are grown in large tanks filled with fluid, eventually becoming "Elite Pirates."

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'' Opens with the player character floating inside of one used to grow clones.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': We see in the opening cinematic that all soldiers of Agnus and Keves are grown in pods and decanted [[BornAsAnAdult at age ten]]. The soldiers call these pods "cradles," but the people of the City, who know what ''actual'' cradles are, [[InsistentTerminology prefer to use]] the more bland "growth modules."

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* The titual {{Mon}}s of ''Webcomic/BattleKreaturez'' are created in laboratories rather than being [[GottaCatchEmAll captured]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrosRadiantIsTheBloodOfTheBaboonHeart'': It's revealed that [[spoiler:the titular twins' MissingMom never actually birthed them and simply donated her eggs to one of these their dad Rusty built]].

* The FinaleMovie of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' reveals that [[spoiler:Hank and Dean Venture were birthed through this process. Their possible genetic mother donated her eggs to Rusty in exchange for him giving her superpowers and he gestated them in a specially designed womb that he wore]].

** The Cetagandan Haut-lords in the Vorkosiverse reproduce entirely without sex or even coupling being involved... In fact, the parents may never even meet or make any decisions. Every child is created through contracts arranged by high-ranking family members, frequently with positive genetic alterations added, then the baby cooked up in a replicator and handed to the appropriate household for rearing. The ruling Haut are practically considered a superhuman sub-race at this point, though a good number of their enhancements are AwesomeButImpractical aesthetic improvements. In their case every child is [[DesignerBabies designed]] by the central government, and the biological parents may never meet at all.