A fruit fly's 166k-neuron connectome is now driving real robots, no AI training needed
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-10-20
Researchers are running the complete 166,000-neuron connectome of a fruit fly's brain directly on real robots — no AI training involved, with the fly's own neural circuits driving the machine. It's a landmark demo of a whole-brain connectome functioning as a robot controller, showing connectome data can move from static maps to functional control systems — neuroscience taking the wheel of robotics.
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