🧠 Eon Systems runs first digital brain that controls a virtual body

Researchers at Eon Systems say they built the first full digital emulation of an animal brain that can control a body inside a simulation.

The team copied the brain of a fruit fly and reconstructed its connectome. This is a full map of neurons and the connections between them. The model includes about 140,000 neurons with their synaptic links.

The key step was connecting this brain model to a simulated body. The system runs a full loop: environment → sensors → brain signals → motor commands → movement. The virtual fly shows several basic behavior patterns.

The approach uses a biological brain map instead of training a neural network. Scaling it remains the main challenge. A human brain contains about 86 billion neurons.

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