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Google Publishes Full Map of Fruit Fly Neurons

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  • Italian developer Mark Unthank programmed a simulated fruit fly to parallel park a car.
  • Unthank also made the simulated fly use a car’s blinkers when turning.
  • Other engineers trained a simulated fly to solve a Rubik’s Cube.
  • Another simulated fly danced to the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” after hearing four tones.
  • Google published a complete map of the fruit fly’s 166,000 neurons.