Haltere Pilot

A quadrotor flight controller built from a 9,235-neuron MaleCNS subnetwork: every neuron within three synapses of an input port and a wing motor neuron. Each drone sensor enters at the afferent population that carries it in a real fly, so the gyroscope reaches the brain only through 204 haltere afferents. A degree-preserving rewired control scores 23.3 fruit per minute against the real wiring 22.3, so the connectome gives no task advantage. The ablations pay off: silencing the halteres drops the score to 0.5, while silencing as many random neurons barely registers.

Official site ↗

#drone#haltere#ablation#shuffled-control#wing-motor-neurons#malecns