The robots are called “butterfly bots,” because their swimming motion resembles the way a person’s arms move when they are swimming the butterfly stroke.

Dr. Dan Ginader explains how swimmers can get wings from repeatedly performing the butterfly stroke in a TikTok video.

A soft robot propelled by a butterfly-stroke-like motion achieves a speed and efficiency similar to those of swimming animals 1. Soft swimming robots could have applications ranging from ocean ...

In a study published on Nov. 18 in the journal Science Advances, the device was built by North Carolina State University engineers and is capable of performing a butterfly stroke-like motion.

5. Butterfly The combination of strength and coordination required to pull off the butterfly makes it the hardest swimming stroke. Some people, including many triathletes, never learn it, Lucero says.

The individual medley (IM) requires competitors to use each stroke for one-fourth of the race, following this sequence: butterfly, then backstroke, then breaststroke, then freestyle. There are two IM ...

The University of Iowa is the birthplace of the butterfly — the butterfly stroke that is. The swimming stroke was not exactly invented at Iowa, but it was certainly perfected in Iowa City in the early ...