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Anastasia Gamick reposted Tim Hwang @timhwang · 37m With the FlyWire proboscis neurons successfully wired into the mechanical clamp, positive control allows us to install the entire fly mind inside the body of a treaded rover for a variety of grasping routines [embedded video, 0:20, paused. Video title bar reads: "FLYROVER MK2 · DIRECTED-NEURAL PHYSICAL PICK-AND-PLACE POSITIVE CONTROL · PASSIVE CAMERA REPLAY · tick 26400". Panels: "FlyWire v783 · exact sampled arbors · group rate (Hz)" (colored neuron arbor renderings; footer "6 exact SWCs · 6 labeled groups / group rates (Hz): DNp09_L=450, DNp09_R=400, DNa02_L=50, DNa02_R=50"); "Actual body · segmentation-aligned activation" (small treaded rover with an orange arm, orange ball); "Body in environment" (rover with arm and gripper on a checkered floor, orange ball, blue bin). Small debug text under the body panel is unreadable at this size.]
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Repost of a Tim Hwang tweet claiming FlyWire fly neurons were wired into a mechanical clamp and that the fly connectome is driving a treaded rover for grasping routines. The attached video frame shows colored fly neuron arbors beside a simulated treaded rover with a gripper arm picking up an orange ball toward a blue bin on a checkered floor. Posted deadpan, no obvious joke markers.
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