Summary
Insect wings have no muscles or nerves. They are instead controlled by muscles located inside the body that operate a system of marionette-like pulleys within a complex hinge at the base of the wing. After collecting more than 80,000 wingbeats, the team applied machine-learning techniques to process the large volume of data. The ultimate goal is to understand the neurobiological connection between a fly's brain and the movement of its wings.
