BrainCraft Challenge: Navigate a Maze with 1000 Neurons

The BrainCraft Challenge invites participants to design a biologically-inspired, rate-based neural network to control a virtual agent navigating a simple maze and seeking energy sources. The challenge consists of five progressively difficult tasks, each lasting two months. The agent must navigate and acquire energy under resource constraints, using limited sensor data and only 1000 neurons. This poses a significant challenge to current neuroscience-inspired models, requiring integration of functional neural dynamics and sensorimotor control.