Observed arrival · 2026-11-08
FlyHead: a fruit-fly connectome at the controls
A research prototype connects a simulated whole-brain fruit-fly connectome to a wheel-legged robot, using LiDAR input to produce motion commands.
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- Robotics and computational neuroscience researchers
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- The page reports a 67-minute longest brain-driven run, while noting that contact records were not recorded.
Field notes
FlyHead’s page distinguishes the robot’s factory balance controller from the off-board connectome simulation, which supplies speed commands; a lost link lasting two seconds stops the robot. It reports 84 ms of compute per 100 ms of model time at p50 and 122 ms p95 early on a shared GPU. The page labels the motion mapping an engineering decoder, not reconstructed fly motor control, and lists unrecorded contact runs and unfinished tests.
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