LAUSANNE,Switzerland (Reuters) — A unique citizen science project in which volunteers will be trained to move a piece of steel machinery using the power of their mind begins on October 27. The Mental Work project uses Brain-Machine Interfaces (BMI), developed at an EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) lab. Volunteers activate four machines based on slider cranks, standard mechanisms of the Industrial Revolution, by directly connecting brain activity to their mechanical movements. Co-founder Michael Mitchell […]