Observed arrival · 2026-09-16
SmartFly: a fruit-fly connectome with a failed walking rhythm
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SmartFly wires 165,122 fruit-fly neurons to a simulated body, then reports what happens when the nervous system cannot make it walk.
Field notes
SmartFly describes a staged simulation rather than a finished walking agent. Its first test drives two descending neurons in a fruit-fly connectome and compares ordinary wiring with a degree-preserving scramble; both conditions produce the same dominant 45.5 Hz oscillation, while left-right alternation fails. The page lists a 66-joint, 48-actuator MuJoCo body, but marks open-loop and proprioceptive tests as built and not run. A BNB Smart Chain section and links to a launchpad place the research artifact beside a token project.
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