Nature Methods
Dexterous robotic manipulation of alert adult Drosophila for high-content experimentation
Joan Savall, Eric Tatt Wei Ho, Cheng Huang, Jessica R Maxey, Mark J Schnitzer.
A robotic system is described that uses machine vision guidance to pick, manipulate, inspect and dissect individual flies, enabling large-scale and automated approaches to the analysis of morphology, behavior and neural dynamics.