Artist Creates a "Factory of the Future" with Machines Controlled by Brain
  Waves
From: IEEE Spectrum - 11/01/2017
By: Eliza Strickland

The Mental Work factory is a participatory art installation by the
provocateur and "experimental philosopher" Jonathon Keats, made in
collaboration with neuroscientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.

When you sign up to labor in the “Mental Work” factory, you're equipped with
a brain-scanning headset and taught how to use it. The headset uses EEG
electrodes to record your brainwaves, and the associated software can pick
out specific patterns. The factory overseer explains that this brain-computer
interface has been programmed to respond to a neural pattern that occurs when
you imagine squeezing a ball in your hand.

Then you’re introduced to the machines you'll be controlling. They are things
of beauty, made of lightweight aluminum and finished in chrome. At three
stations of increasing complexity, you'll use your brain signals to manage
the machines operations, causing them to manufacture deep thoughts? The
future? That part isn't entirely clear. 

Read the entire article at:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/bionics/artist-creates-a-factory-of-the-future-with-machines-controlled-by-brain-waves

Links:
Jonathon Keats
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathon_Keats

Mental Work: The Cognitive Revolution Starts Here
https://artlab.epfl.ch/page-150956-en.html

Mental Work
http://www.mentalwork.net