Robotics & hardware ·
Why a dead fly's brain is now steering a real robot
A builder reconstructed a fruit fly's brain, MaleCNS, with 166,700 neurons and 25.6 million connections, and got the simulation running on a MacBook. He used Codex to translate its live neural activity into simple movement commands sent over Wi-Fi to a real quadruped robot.
There is no prerecorded sequence. The fly has been dead for years, but its reconstructed nervous system is producing movement again, right now, in someone's apartment.
Made by u/martinkozar55. This write-up follows the original post; it is not an independent product test.
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