flylabs brings the brain of the fruit fly into machines. The research lab runs the fully mapped brain of a fruit fly in software, 138,639 neurons with their wiring unchanged, and lets it drive a mouse pointer, a walking body and video games.

Facts

Cursor	Hits 64% of the targets in the standard pointing test for people, faster than people.
Walk	Keeps a simulated human body upright 98% of the time under fire from balls.
Gaze	Keeps a grabbed object in a video in view 97% of the time.
Play	Fights waves of enemies in Doom and wins 176 of 200 rounds; plays a jump-and-run.
Data	FlyWire connectome (Dorkenwald et al. 2024). Licences: see License.