flylabs brings the brain of the fruit flyinto machines.
We run the complete brain of a fruit fly, all 138,639 neurons wired exactly as mapped, and put it to work. It steers a mouse, keeps a human body on its feet under a hail of balls, fights in Doom and follows objects through video. Live, in your browser.
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A real brain at work
No layers we designed, no connections we trained. Every demo on this site is the same brain, mapped from a real fly.
Evolution built this brain to see, steer and escape in milliseconds. We put it in charge of machines and study which of its circuits take on each job.
Live demos
Walk
Keeps a human body on its feet under a hail of balls and over logs. Knock it down: it gets back up.
Cursor
Moves a mouse faster than people do in the standard pointing test.
Gaze
Grab any object in a video. The fly's eyes stay on it.
Play
Fights waves of enemies in Doom and plays the classic jump-and-run, pressing every button itself.
How it works
1. Eyes and senses
The machine feeds the fly's eyes and senses.
2. The fly brain
138,639 neurons, wired as in the animal.
3. Commands
The brain's command neurons drive the machine.