{"id":233473,"date":"2026-03-17T06:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/researchers-upload-flys-brain-to-matrix-let-it-control-virtual-body"},"modified":"2026-03-17T06:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:04:44","slug":"researchers-upload-flys-brain-to-matrix-let-it-control-virtual-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/researchers-upload-flys-brain-to-matrix-let-it-control-virtual-body","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Upload Fly\u2019s Brain to Matrix, Let It Control Virtual Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e21OUXPlnhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence seeks to emulate the faculties of the human mind through computational systems, a synthetic recreation of our brains\u2019 capabilities to perceive, learn, and reason.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a company claims to have taken a totally different tack by simulating the 125,000 neurons and 50 million synaptic connections of an adult fruit fly\u2019s brain \u2014 and then letting it roam inside a Matrix-like virtual environment.<\/p>\n<p>In a video <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexwg\/status\/2030217301929132323?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">shared by Eon Systems cofounder Alex Weissner-Gross<\/a>, the crudely animated insect can be seen stretching its legs inside a simulated sandbox, rubbing its front feet together and using its labellum to drink from a small bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence seeks to emulate the faculties of the human mind through computational systems, a synthetic recreation of our brains\u2019 capabilities to perceive, learn, and reason. Now, a company claims to have taken a totally different tack by simulating the 125,000 neurons and 50 million synaptic connections of an adult fruit fly\u2019s brain \u2014 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233473","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}