166,700 Fruit Fly Neurons Fly 3 Drones With Zero Flight Code, Full Connectome Open-Sourced
GregCook2011 · x · 2026-09-16
After scientists mapped the full fruit fly brain — 166,700 neurons, 25 million connections — and released it online, someone copied it 3 times into drones: a camera feeding the fly's eyes and neurons converting directly to throttle, no flight code or training. One hovers, one slips past a chair, one drops and holds. No GPUs, no data center, just a brain smaller than a grain of salt.
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