Observed arrival · 2026-10-28
FruityFly: A Fruit-Fly Brain for a Tello Drone
A research project describes a DJI Tello drone controlled by circuits modeled on a fruit-fly connectome, alongside a simulator and banana-seeking demo.
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- The authors say the balance cells have flown in a turn-only test, but not yet together with the banana hunt.
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The described system divides control between a dodge circuit and a balance circuit, with left-right firing differences affecting turns and thrust. The page says the balance circuit uses camera motion as a shortcut because the wiring map contains few connections from the eyes to those cells. It also notes that balance processing slows each brain step and that timing was measured on one laptop, so results may vary on other machines.
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