Fruit flies can be made to act like miniature robots

The paper itself (open access):

Iwasaki K, Neuhauser C, Stokes C, Rayshubskiy A. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a microrobotics platform. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Apr 15;122(15):e2426180122. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2426180122. Epub 2025 Apr 8. PMID: 40198707.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2426180122