CHINA BUILD ROBOT THAT CAN 'READ MINDS' TESTED ON HUMANS WITH '96% ACCURACY'

Chinese scientists claim to have developed a wearable robot that can read a person's mind by monitoring brain waves and muscle activity. The machine, according to its creators, was able to "recognize human intention" with 96 percent accuracy. According to the Hong Kong-based newspaper South China Morning Post, the robot was tested at an assembly factory by developers at China Three Gorges University's Intelligent Manufacturing Innovation Technology Centre. According to the developers, the industrial robot not only monitored the worker's brain waves but also collected electric signals from muscles as it worked together to assemble a complex product. According to the developers, the robot was able to read a coworker's brain waves without the latter saying anything and pick up a tool and place it on the workstation. "In modern industrial manufacturing, assembly work accounts for 45 per cent of the total workload, and 20-30 per cent of the total production cost," project lead scientist Dong Yuanfa and his co-researchers said in a paper published in domestic peer-reviewed journal China Mechanical Engineering.