{"id":139175,"date":"2022-05-11T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/neuromechfly-a-digital-twin-of-drosophila"},"modified":"2022-05-11T13:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T18:22:42","slug":"neuromechfly-a-digital-twin-of-drosophila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/neuromechfly-a-digital-twin-of-drosophila","title":{"rendered":"NeuroMechFly: A digital twin of Drosophila"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuromechfly-a-digital-twin-of-drosophila3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EPFL scientists have developed a digital model of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that realistically simulates the movements of the animal. The twin is a big step towards reverse engineering the neuromechanical control of animal behavior, and developing bioinspired robots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used two kinds of data to build NeuroMechFly,\u201d says Professor Pavan Ramdya at EPFL\u2019s School of Life Sciences. \u201cFirst, we took a real fly and performed a CT scan to build a morphologically realistic biomechanical <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/model\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">model<\/a>. The second source of data were the real limb movements of the fly, obtained using pose estimation software that we\u2019ve developed in the last couple of years that allow us to precisely track the movements of the animal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramdya\u2019s group, working with the group of Professor Auke Ijspeert at EPFL\u2019s Biorobotics Laboratory, has published a paper in <i>Nature Methods<\/i> showcasing the first ever accurate \u201cdigital twin\u201d of the fly Drosophila melanogaster, dubbed \u201cNeuroMechFly\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPFL scientists have developed a digital model of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that realistically simulates the movements of the animal. The twin is a big step towards reverse engineering the neuromechanical control of animal behavior, and developing bioinspired robots. \u201cWe used two kinds of data to build NeuroMechFly,\u201d says Professor Pavan Ramdya at EPFL\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}