Flies That Do Calculus With Their Wings

DudeTheMath (522264) writes "Cornell University scientists studied how fruit flies respond to flight disturbances (instead of wind gusts, they used carefully controlled magnetic pulses) and found that the flies recover in as little as three wing beats (at 250 per second) by doing some kind of calculus in a little 'integrated circuit' of neurons that control the wings directly. The pitch and yaw results are already published, and the roll study is forthcoming."

Comments

Interesting

[colinrichardday]

Any way of installing these wings on college students?

Re:Time, distance, motion, acceleration

[Anonymous Coward]

This is nothing. My desk lamp does REAL-TIME ray tracing!

Especially when I put a couple reflective spheres on a checkerboard underneath it.