Connecting brain and body

The fly has six legs, with jointed segments at their ends. The run begins with a hinged contact panel. After three distinct neural-driven contact cycles reach at least 0.5° of panel motion, a scrambled 2×2 cube is introduced automatically. A verified physical solve introduces the 3×3.

The neural adapter maps measured motor-neuron activity to one foreleg joint. Imposed stimulation is used for calibration, and stale input returns the joint to neutral. Learning will require a controller that changes its actions using contact and movement feedback, then succeeds on target positions it has never practiced. Connecting a connectome alone does not establish learning. The cube uses an idealized fixture with switched constraints and a small declared alignment detent. A turn must physically reach within 0.5° of 90°, have fly contact, and produce the correct measured sticker state. A process restart or loss of neural input resets the current scramble; the completed curriculum stage is retained. Cube solving remains a research goal.

1. Contact calibrationCurrent test: measure physical contact and panel motion.
2. Neural controlConnect measured simulated motor output to the leg.
3. Learn repeatable turnsCompare training against fixed controls on new target positions.
4. Manipulate a cubeBuild and test the full physical puzzle task.