Fruit fly brain with 166,700 neurons runs in a physical robot
GregCook2011 · x · 2026-09-14
- A builder connected a computational model reconstructed from the fruit fly connectome — 166,700 neurons and 25 million connections — to a physical Strandbeest robot.
- The simulated brain's neural activity is translated into motor commands that move the mechanical legs; the author engineered the output interface himself.
- The same fly brain was previously hooked up to DOOM and Chrome Dino; this is its first physical body, prompting nods to the sci-fi story The Lifecycle of Software Objects.
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