International EditionFruit Fly Brain Model Walks, Feeds Inside a Computer
Eon Systems replicated a fruit fly brain with 125,000 neurons and 50 million synapses achieving 95% motor behavior accuracy in a physics-based simulation.
- On Wednesday, Oct. 2, Eon Systems PBC demonstrated the world’s first embodied whole-brain emulation that drove behaviors in a simulated adult Drosophila melanogaster using NeuroMechFly v2 and the MuJoCo physics engine.
- Built from electron‑microscopy of 7,000 slices, the FlyWire Consortium recently completed a fly wiring diagram, and Philip Shiu in 2024 published a connectome-based brain model with ML neurotransmitter predictions.
- Validation shows the connectome‑based model predicted motor behavior with 95% accuracy, and the demonstration video emphasizes it is a biological connectome replica, not reinforcement‑learning approaches.
- Eon Systems plans to scale from fly to mouse and build the largest connectome, advancing neuroscience and AI research communities.
- Compared with earlier efforts, the demonstration marks a major scale jump from larval fly and nematode models and sparks debate on autonomous neural dynamics versus reinforcement‑learning flies.
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