That is a microscopic worm, digitized and taught artificially to balance a pole on its tail.
Digitized worm brain learns a new trick: https://newatlas.com/c-elegans-worm-neural-network/53296/
Researchers at TU Wien digitized the worms brain (302 neurons), trained it like a neural network through reinforcement learning making use of the existing reflexes and the network indeed learned!











