Fruit fly brain with 166,700 neurons installed in a physical robot that walks
udmrzn · x · 2026-09-15
A developer connected a digitized fruit fly brain—166,700 neurons and 25 million connections from a published connectome—to a Strandbeest-style mechanical robot. The simulated brain's neural activity is translated into motor commands driving the mechanical legs, and the robot behaves like the biological fly.
- The panel shows the simulated brain running in real time, with a custom-engineered interface bridging its outputs to the robot
- The same fly brain was previously run inside DOOM and Chrome's Dino game
- The author stresses the brain is a computational model built from biological wiring; he engineered the interface himself
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