Alejandro Panizza

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.