🪰 Eon Systems Shows Off First Whole-Brain Simulation in a Virtual Body

Eon Systems, a San Francisco startup, has pulled off what it calls the world's first whole-brain emulation of a fruit fly—one that controls a physically simulated body and produces a range of natural behaviors, all without any machine learning training.

The company announced on March 6, and researchers in the field are already describing it as a major step forward in brain emulation: a breakthrough that finally closes the gap between mapping a brain and actually getting it to do something.