sciencehabit written with a writeup of a document of French research in science. Extract from the article. They are not psychic enough yet, but machines are getting better at reading your mind researchers have invented a new noninvasive method for recording modes of brain activity and used to control a robot Scientists hope the technology will. give ‘locked in’ patients … the ability to interact with others and even give the illusion of being physically … with friends and family. The thing really interesting here is that people who did not use their members over the years were able to learn to control the robot (as well as the control group only) after being trained in just one hour a week for six weeks.