Fruit Fly Brain Connectome of 166,000 Neurons Translated Into Robot Control
CurieuxExplorer · x · 2026-11-12
Researchers are translating the fully mapped fruit fly connectome — a network of about 166,000 neurons — into robotic control circuitry. The project sits at the intersection of neuroscience and robotics, testing whether a real biological brain wiring diagram can serve as a control architecture and blur the boundary between the two fields.
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