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digital fruit fly brain model walks and cleans its feelers
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- Eon Systems developed first digital simulation of a fruit fly brain with 125,000 neurons and 50 million synapses.
- The model controls a virtual body and exhibits behaviors like walking and cleaning antennae.
- Simulation based on 3D brain scan from an adult female Drosophila melanogaster.
- Published 2026-05-06.