Fruit Fly Connectome With 166,700 Neurons Drives a Physical Robot
flngr · x · 2026-09-13
A developer connected the reconstructed fruit fly connectome (166,700 neurons, 25 million synapses) to a physical Strandbeest robot, translating simulated neural activity into motor commands. The computational model previously ran DOOM and Chrome Dino; the author engineered the brain-to-robot interface himself.
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