Using GPT-6 Astra as the eyes for a fruit-fly-brain Vector robot
The author runs a simulated fruit fly nervous system and Astra inside an eBay-bought Vector robot, with Astra turning camera views into sensory signals so it moves around the apartment on its own.
I uploaded a fly brain and GPT-6 Astra into a Vector robot I bought on eBay Vector was supposed to be a desk pet. Now it has a reconstructed fruit fly nervous system running inside it. MaleCNS gives it 166,700 simulated neurons and 25.6 million connections. GPT-6 Astra gives it vision. Astra sees the room through Vector's camera - furniture, walls, doors, objects on the floor - and turns the visual scene into sensory signals. The fly brain processes those signals and chooses where Vector should go next. Astra sees. The fly brain decides. Vector moves. > No joystick > No preset route > No one manually telling it to turn left or right It started roaming around my apartment, stopping in front of furniture, changing direction, and reacting to things in its path. I bought it on eBay because it looked like a cute little WALL-E. Now it has a brain, eyes, and a body. And it keeps looking at me like it knows I’m the reason it exists.