Yeah what a great way to weaken a civilization. Or is this all part of the transmigration of humanity towards a cyberpunk future. All those gibbled sperms are gonna need robotic assistance to get through life. At least they'll be easier to manage.

Absolutely right sugamari....what ever happened to the Darwin theory...nature has a reason for weak "swimmers"...they are will make useless humans!

I wonder what Darwin would have made of this interference with nature.

Is this really necessary? Males on the average produce 300million to 500million sperm per ejaculate which is about a teaspoon. There are plenty of healthy sperm to compensate for poor swimmers.

Suga, Hkm, Mel, Marc;
Weak swimmers do not equate to total genetic uselessness, and sheer numbers do not guarantee success, all you sons of Onan.

Seems odd that they would WANT to allow the "weak" to propagate. There's a REASON the ones that are slow are usually incapable of fertilizing the egg.
Perhaps some genetic lines should be allowed to die off.

'm loving all the comments to date.
While the technofreak in me sees this as a cool robotics and micromachining challenge, is the world really in such a population and humanitarian crysis(sic) that it needs to go to such great lengths (pun).....
Floaties for sperm, what a great idea.
Chuck a few bucks at some trash and voila population explosion, it ain't rocket science, it's economics. Forget the assisted wanking.

And what becomes of the 'cork screw' after it delivers the payload ?

Another nail in the coffin for natural selection and survival of the fittest improving upon the human form. As with so many things humanity seems to prefer quantity over quality despite the quantity killing our biosphere and our only hope of saving it is the quality humans. We are in yet another race to the bottom folks and in this context race can mean multiple things...

The planet is dying from too many humans, and especially by rich westerners, so instead of finding ways to breed an over represented species we should be trying to entice people not to have children. And frankly, I do not understand why anyone would even want to have a child, at least those that care about their child's future, not so much for those that do it for ego fulfillment.