The project helps people use thoughts to control machines

Scientists carry out the project to allow humans to control the machine through brain activity.

The Mental Work science project uses the Brain and Machine Connection Interface (BMI), developed at the laboratory of the Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, to be deployed from October 27, according to Eagle. News.

Volunteers participating in the project are instructed to move a part of the machine with brain energy.

"People can go to the project's factory. We will give them a helmet to read the electroencephalic activity. This is a wireless hat so users can travel in the laboratory and still connect. connected to the machine only through mental activity , " Michael Mitchell, co-founder of the project, told Reuters.

"The experiment is based on the interface that connects the brain to the machine, which is the signal that decodes brain activity to identify certain mental tasks. We will then use mathematical models to deduce. the intention of the user and the transmission of this information to the machine, " explained Ricardo Chavarriaga, an expert from EPFL's False Neurological Center.

The device will be ready for use after knowing how to evaluate a user's brainwave, usually after volunteers are asked to imagine the action of holding or opening a hand.

The project is a combination of scientific, artistic and design elements. Scientists think it is highly applicable."The project can be applied in the creation of support and recovery equipment for people with physical or cognitive disabilities. Thanks to the ability to exchange information directly through brain activity, we can open it. a new way of interacting , " Chavarriaga said.

Experiment connecting human brain with machine.(Photo: Eagle News).

According to Mitchell, people are standing at the turning point of a cognitive revolution, where the brain is intimately connected to the surrounding physical world.

"This may not have happened in the next 1 or 5 years, but with the development of interfaces that connect the brain, we think we are beginning a period of people becoming the center of these technologies. The activity of the human brain will interact with the physical world around in a way that we almost cannot imagine today , " Mitchell said.

The project will be deployed at EPFL factory, then moved to Swissnex center in San Francisco, then to Boston, USA. All data from the 7-month experiment will be collected and sent to the development team of the brainstorm interface to improve them in the future.