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UPDATE: Flyctor has a second body now I bought another Vector robot and connected it to the same stack: - a camera feed - GPT-6 Astra for real-time visual understanding - a MaleCNS fly-brain simulation for movement decisions - a small audio protocol for robot-to-robot communication I didn't let... them exchange normal Wi-Fi messages. Instead, each robot has to communicate through its speaker and microphone. One robot emits a short sequence of tones. The other records the sound, converts it into a frequency pattern, classifies the pattern, and injects it into its fly-brain simulation as a sensory event. Right now their entire vocabulary is only four signals: one chirp = "I found an object" two chirps = "come closer" long tone = "path blocked" rapid chirps = "I need help" The interesting part is that the robots don't send coordinates. They don't share a map. They don't know where the other robot is. One Flyctor sees something through Astra, decides it matters, sends a sound, and the other Flyctor has to hear it, interpret it, then decide what to do with that information. camera -> Astra -> fly brain -> speaker microphone -> audio decoder -> fly brain -> movement It is basically a tiny sensory loop between two digital insect nervous systems. Yesterday one robot detected a blocked path and sent the long-tone signal. The other one heard it, turned toward the sound, and rolled over to investigate. It was not impressive in the way modern AI demos are impressive. It was impressive because it felt like watching two small creatures notice each other for the first time.show more

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Part two of the jeans robot. Update: it's moving. Just a miniature, and only one leg, but I already feel an absurd amount of love for it. Can't wait for it to start breaking in its first pair.

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35,310 views • 17 days ago

This work makes a humanoid robot do simple parkour moves by looking with a depth camera and choosing the right move on the fly. The big deal is that it turns lots of small human moves into long, real-time robot behavior, without hand-coding every transition or retraining for each new course. A humanoid robot is usually good at steady walking, but it often fails when it has to do fast moves like jumping up, vaulting, or rolling, and then keep going to the next obstacle. The hard part is that you cannot easily collect training data for every possible obstacle shape, distance, and mistake, so robots end up learning a few moves that only work in a narrow setup. This work starts from short clips of real human parkour moves, like stepping over, vaulting, climbing, and rolling. It uses motion matching, which is basically a smart “pick the next clip that fits best right now” search, to stitch those short clips into a long, smooth plan that looks like a human doing a whole course. Then it trains a controller with reinforcement learning (RL), which means the robot learns by trial and error to copy that plan while staying balanced and not falling. After training separate expert controllers for different moves, it compresses them into 1 controller that uses only onboard depth sensing and a simple “go this fast in this direction” command. In real tests on a Unitree G1 humanoid, it can clear multiple obstacles in a row, adapt when obstacles get moved, and climb a wall up to 1.25m.

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Rohan Paul

37,121 views • 7 months ago

a real fly brain saw its 40th video 3 seconds ago. it did not choose any of them. it never will. that's FLYTOK. I open-sourced a live simulation of a real fruit fly connectome and gave it a phone. here's exactly what 166,700 neurons do while you scroll: THE WIRING MaleCNS v1.0. the reconstructed central nervous system of a real male Drosophila. 166,700 neurons. 25,582,938 directed connections. 124,177,617 synaptic contacts. nothing cropped. no "simplified 1,000-neuron version" running behind the scenes. the whole graph is in memory on every single step. THE LOCK the app checksums the connectome against SHA-256 before it's allowed to boot. one array off by a byte and the brain refuses to start. you are either watching the real MaleCNS graph or you are watching nothing. THE SPIKES every neuron is a leaky integrate-and-fire cell. crosses −45 mV, it fires. the spike lands 1.8 ms later. 2.2 ms of silence, then it's live again. the network advances in 0.1 ms steps inside a compiled C++ kernel. roughly 1.2 million spikes per simulated second. THE EYES the browser captures the phone at 90×160 pixels. brightness drives 3,335 R1–R6 photoreceptors. color drives 811 R8 cells, blue and green. each one is placed on the screen by inferring its eye column from its real connections onto L1, L2, L3. real input, through real visual wiring. it's measurable. same brain, same saved state. 100 ms of white produced 127,378 spikes. black produced 92,952. the screen changes the brain. THE ALGORITHM while a video plays, I inject a fixed current into all 15 PAM11 dopamine neurons in the mushroom body. that's it. that's the whole trick. matched 200 ms control: 0 PAM11 spikes. drive on: 261. live, it sits at 85–97 Hz for as long as the feed runs. the fly does not earn it. an app decided watching one more should feel good. THE PLASTICITY 7,835 Kenyon-cell connections onto MBON07 and MBON11 can change. dopamine fires while Kenyon cells were active, those synapses weaken, floored at 10% and never flipping sign. after one stimulated run, 3,087 of them no longer matched their original weight. freeze it and they stay put. restore a checkpoint, replay the input, identical spikes bit for bit. THE SWIPE every 3 seconds the front right leg reaches up and strokes the screen, on the same 900 ms timeline as the video transition. wings, legs and head turns come from actual motor firing, MN9, DNp09, left-vs-right DNa02. those are real. the swipe is not. the fly never decides to swipe. the feed decides for it. ONE BRAIN this isn't a video of a simulation. it's the simulation. there is exactly one brain on one server. whoever loads the page first becomes its eyes and supplies the frames. everyone else watches the same brain react in real time. no video, no input, it just waits. no data, no numbers, the overlay shows nothing. it never invents a reading to look alive. THE HONEST PART the wiring is real. the physiology is approximate. the eyes are approximate. the dopamine is artificial. the feed is on a timer. the learning rule is unvalidated on this connectome. nothing here shows the fly enjoys it, prefers it, is addicted, or experiences anything at all. no living fly was involved. it took a few hundred lines of glue code to build a loop out of a screen, a timer and a reward signal wired to the right cells. imagine what an industry with a budget can do. open source. MaleCNS under CC BY 4.0. runs on your own machine, 16 GB RAM and a few GB of disk. the fly is still scrolling. nobody is coming to take the phone away. links in the reply.

a real fly brain saw its 40th video 3 seconds ago. it did not choose any of them. it never will. that's FLYTOK. I open-sourced a live simulation of a real fruit fly connectome and gave it a phone. here's exactly what 166,700 neurons do while you scroll: THE WIRING MaleCNS v1.0. the reconstructed central nervous system of a real male Drosophila. 166,700 neurons. 25,582,938 directed connections. 124,177,617 synaptic contacts. nothing cropped. no "simplified 1,000-neuron version" running behind the scenes. the whole graph is in memory on every single step. THE LOCK the app checksums the connectome against SHA-256 before it's allowed to boot. one array off by a byte and the brain refuses to start. you are either watching the real MaleCNS graph or you are watching nothing. THE SPIKES every neuron is a leaky integrate-and-fire cell. crosses −45 mV, it fires. the spike lands 1.8 ms later. 2.2 ms of silence, then it's live again. the network advances in 0.1 ms steps inside a compiled C++ kernel. roughly 1.2 million spikes per simulated second. THE EYES the browser captures the phone at 90×160 pixels. brightness drives 3,335 R1–R6 photoreceptors. color drives 811 R8 cells, blue and green. each one is placed on the screen by inferring its eye column from its real connections onto L1, L2, L3. real input, through real visual wiring. it's measurable. same brain, same saved state. 100 ms of white produced 127,378 spikes. black produced 92,952. the screen changes the brain. THE ALGORITHM while a video plays, I inject a fixed current into all 15 PAM11 dopamine neurons in the mushroom body. that's it. that's the whole trick. matched 200 ms control: 0 PAM11 spikes. drive on: 261. live, it sits at 85–97 Hz for as long as the feed runs. the fly does not earn it. an app decided watching one more should feel good. THE PLASTICITY 7,835 Kenyon-cell connections onto MBON07 and MBON11 can change. dopamine fires while Kenyon cells were active, those synapses weaken, floored at 10% and never flipping sign. after one stimulated run, 3,087 of them no longer matched their original weight. freeze it and they stay put. restore a checkpoint, replay the input, identical spikes bit for bit. THE SWIPE every 3 seconds the front right leg reaches up and strokes the screen, on the same 900 ms timeline as the video transition. wings, legs and head turns come from actual motor firing, MN9, DNp09, left-vs-right DNa02. those are real. the swipe is not. the fly never decides to swipe. the feed decides for it. ONE BRAIN this isn't a video of a simulation. it's the simulation. there is exactly one brain on one server. whoever loads the page first becomes its eyes and supplies the frames. everyone else watches the same brain react in real time. no video, no input, it just waits. no data, no numbers, the overlay shows nothing. it never invents a reading to look alive. THE HONEST PART the wiring is real. the physiology is approximate. the eyes are approximate. the dopamine is artificial. the feed is on a timer. the learning rule is unvalidated on this connectome. nothing here shows the fly enjoys it, prefers it, is addicted, or experiences anything at all. no living fly was involved. it took a few hundred lines of glue code to build a loop out of a screen, a timer and a reward signal wired to the right cells. imagine what an industry with a budget can do. open source. MaleCNS under CC BY 4.0. runs on your own machine, 16 GB RAM and a few GB of disk. the fly is still scrolling. nobody is coming to take the phone away. links in the reply.

sopersone

37,608 views • 20 days ago

scientists published the complete wiring diagram of a fly's brain 140,000 neurons. 50 million connections. Someone just built an entire trading bot on top of it. they named it FlySwarm. $55 → $8,740 in 28 hours i downloaded it. told it to trade. more than +15,800% profit the fly has been dead for years. its brain is still making money. a fly's brain evolved one job over 50 million years: survive. find food before something kills you. never stop scanning. act in milliseconds. every 8 minutes: runs the full connectome against live market data the way the fly would run it against a field the "food detection" circuits flag where price is moving before volume confirms it the "threat avoidance" circuits kill any position the moment the pattern breaks the "escape reflex" closes everything in under 200 milliseconds if volatility spikes it doesn't calculate. it reacts. the way a fly reacts. it has never hesitated once. night one it dropped to $9. the escape reflex triggered 40 times in 6 hours. a fly survives by being faster than everything trying to eat it. by morning it had rebuilt the balance and was up 15,800%. the market tried to eat it on night one. it flew away. the algo ran for free. it's been running for 50 million years. $55 → $8,740 in 28 hours what does a fly know about markets that we don't?

scientists published the complete wiring diagram of a fly's brain 140,000 neurons. 50 million connections. Someone just built an entire trading bot on top of it. they named it FlySwarm. $55 → $8,740 in 28 hours i downloaded it. told it to trade. more than +15,800% profit the fly has been dead for years. its brain is still making money. a fly's brain evolved one job over 50 million years: survive. find food before something kills you. never stop scanning. act in milliseconds. every 8 minutes: runs the full connectome against live market data the way the fly would run it against a field the "food detection" circuits flag where price is moving before volume confirms it the "threat avoidance" circuits kill any position the moment the pattern breaks the "escape reflex" closes everything in under 200 milliseconds if volatility spikes it doesn't calculate. it reacts. the way a fly reacts. it has never hesitated once. night one it dropped to $9. the escape reflex triggered 40 times in 6 hours. a fly survives by being faster than everything trying to eat it. by morning it had rebuilt the balance and was up 15,800%. the market tried to eat it on night one. it flew away. the algo ran for free. it's been running for 50 million years. $55 → $8,740 in 28 hours what does a fly know about markets that we don't?

Nekt0

47,335 views • 17 days ago

$166,000 neurons from a dead fruit fly now hunt drones from a bedroom desk. A white drone the size of a palm lifts off the carpet, and a black 3D-printed turret on the desk swings after it, with the fly's brain working its 2 stepper motors, 1 camera and 2 barrels through a nest of rainbow wires on a breadboard. That brain sits in the top-left corner of the screen and flares every time the drone jerks. A Patriot interceptor costs about $4 million, and armies are firing them at drones worth a fraction of that. This brain is smaller than a poppy seed, and Google put it online for free 2 weeks ago. Then someone gave it a job it was built for. Most of a fly's brain exists to see motion, and this brain is male, and male flies spend their lives chasing whatever moves. The drone climbs past the ceiling fan and the crosshair climbs with it, then drops when it drops. For 18 seconds it never loses the drone. In the last shot the drone flies home to the guy holding the controller, and the crosshair follows it right onto his chest. It spent its whole life dodging swatters. Now it's the one aiming.$

166,000 neurons from a dead fruit fly now hunt drones from a bedroom desk. A white drone the size of a palm lifts off the carpet, and a black 3D-printed turret on the desk swings after it, with the fly's brain working its 2 stepper motors, 1 camera and 2 barrels through a nest of rainbow wires on a breadboard. That brain sits in the top-left corner of the screen and flares every time the drone jerks. A Patriot interceptor costs about $4 million, and armies are firing them at drones worth a fraction of that. This brain is smaller than a poppy seed, and Google put it online for free 2 weeks ago. Then someone gave it a job it was built for. Most of a fly's brain exists to see motion, and this brain is male, and male flies spend their lives chasing whatever moves. The drone climbs past the ceiling fan and the crosshair climbs with it, then drops when it drops. For 18 seconds it never loses the drone. In the last shot the drone flies home to the guy holding the controller, and the crosshair follows it right onto his chest. It spent its whole life dodging swatters. Now it's the one aiming.

Spike 1%

36,660 views • 13 days ago

The next manipulation tool may not live on your screen. It may stand in front of you look into your eyes and convince you that it understands. Would you rather face a humanoid robot strong enough to hurt you or one designed well enough to make you trust it? This robot copies blinking, eye contact, head movement and facial expressions to create the illusion of human presence. That may look impressive but it also opens a darker question. When a machine can look concerned appear friendly and imitate emotion people may start trusting signals that contain no real feeling no empathy and no moral responsibility. So which is more dangerous a robot with physical power or a robot that can manufacture trust? #HumanoidRobot #Robotics #AI

The next manipulation tool may not live on your screen. It may stand in front of you look into your eyes and convince you that it understands. Would you rather face a humanoid robot strong enough to hurt you or one designed well enough to make you trust it? This robot copies blinking, eye contact, head movement and facial expressions to create the illusion of human presence. That may look impressive but it also opens a darker question. When a machine can look concerned appear friendly and imitate emotion people may start trusting signals that contain no real feeling no empathy and no moral responsibility. So which is more dangerous a robot with physical power or a robot that can manufacture trust? #HumanoidRobot #Robotics #AI

Techniahqrobot | humanoid robots

11,650 views • 2 months ago

You point at the mess and say "clean this." That is the whole manual. Matic just shipped this. No app, no map to draw, no menu. The robot listens in more than 70 languages, watches where your hand points, and drives to that spot. Say "follow me" and it trails you into the next room. All of it runs on the robot itself, so it works with the WiFi off. Nine years of work for one thing: a machine you talk to like a dog that actually listens. Matic Robots

You point at the mess and say "clean this." That is the whole manual. Matic just shipped this. No app, no map to draw, no menu. The robot listens in more than 70 languages, watches where your hand points, and drives to that spot. Say "follow me" and it trails you into the next room. All of it runs on the robot itself, so it works with the WiFi off. Nine years of work for one thing: a machine you talk to like a dog that actually listens. Matic Robots

Chubby♨️

495,322 views • 1 month ago