166,700 fruit fly neurons are flying a drone around my bedroom.
1 camera watches my open hand and that's the whole input.
The panel in the middle is the brain running live 166,700 neurons, 25 million connections, the full reconstructed map of a fruit fly's head.
Camera reads the hand, the brain fires, the output becomes throttle.
Open palm and it climbs, fist and it holds, drop the hand and it comes down.
4 propellers the size of a coin hanging off a nervous system that belonged to an insect.
The honest part this is a computational model, not a resurrected fly, the wiring is biological, the drone is mine, I built the bridge between them.
I never wrote flight logic, no PID tuning, no gesture presets, I gave the neurons somewhere to send the signal and they found the ceiling.
11 seconds in, it holds altitude on its own.
The fly is dead and it's still flying.