Scientists have created a digital fruit fly brain simulation using a mapped connectome and AI, letting the virtual insect move, groom, and search for food in a 3D environment.

We've uploaded a fruit fly. We took the @FlyWireNews connectome of the fruit fly brain, applied a simple neuron model ( @Philip_Shiu Nature 2024) and used it to control a MuJoCo physics-simulated body ...

In a German-U.S. collaboration with the participation of the European Neuroscience Institute Göttingen (ENI-G), researchers have shown that fruit flies can adapt their social behavior and learn from ...