Did the Machines in the Matrix use human women to have baby humans, or did they have some type of mechanical womb? It's clear, from the variety of humans we see in the film, that they kept some kind of genetic diversity, but was that intentional? Did the Machines have any kind of genetic planning in place to create humans who, if they were detached from the Matrix, would be more docile, or did they use random selection?
Since the Machines were keeping humans alive, they had to have some method of breeding more, but they couldn't just take humans out of their chambers and let them mate, so how did they do it? And once you get to that question, it seems only logical for the Machines to use genetic selection to create humans that would best suit the Machines' purpose.
Answer
Well, based on the fact that people in the Matrix perceived themselves pretty much as they appeared once unlinked, it was probably only random in the same way that people in real life have children.
Two people in the Matrix have a child. They expect the child to look like themselves. Even if the unlinked body wasn't theirs, the Matrix could probably reasonably fake the person's appearance within the Matrix. But it doesn't, since (IIRC) everyone we see who has been unlinked has the same physical features as when they were trapped in the simulation. No fakery was going on.
So based on that, the genetic diversity was because of who the humans chose while in the Matrix.
However, how the child was grown, I can't recall if it was ever touched on. Another possibility instead of artificial insemination or artificial womb is some sort of cloning where the two parents' DNA is mingled directly.
Please note that this answer may be invalidated based on the results of Did People Within The Matrix Always Resemble their Real World Bodies?
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