The Mental Work project, developed in José Millán's laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, is a factory dedicated to the future of man-machine interaction. This project was piloted by Mr. José Millán and his team at the Biotech campus. This factory uses brain-machine interfaces developed within EPFL. Their sliding mechanism is inspired by the machines of the first industrial revolution. This exhibition retraces 200 years of interactions between men and machines. All the data collected by people willing to try these machines will be used by the neuroscientific community to improve brain-machine interfaces and contribute to the understanding of the human brain.

The ArtLab, an imposing building at EPFL, is a cultural experimentation space open to the public. Its spectacular design, 250 meters long, was imagined by the famous Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. It brings together under one roof three spaces for interaction with the public, all three dedicated to the same reflection: "How can technology enhance a scientific, historical and cultural heritage? These three spaces are as follows:

Datasquare Space:

- Open on the Esplanade, EPFL's cafeteria, this space stages the issue of big data through the presentation of the School's two major projects: the Blue Brain Project and Venice Time Machine.

Art-Science space:

- Located in the central part of the building, this space hosts original and experimental temporary exhibitions combining artistic heritage and technologies. It offers the School's laboratories and start-ups the opportunity to evaluate their museographic concepts and prototypes in "real conditions", with the aim of enhancing the value of artistic and cultural heritage. The Mental Work exhibition takes place in this space.

Montreux Jazz Café and Archives :

- The Montreux Jazz Café at EPFL is an exploratory platform dedicated to the valorization of the audiovisual archives of the Montreux Jaz Festival, registered since 2013 in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Digitized by EPFL as part of the Montreux Jazz Digital Project, the archives of the famous festival are accessible on site, through innovative navigation devices and immersive audiovisual broadcasting developed by the School. The ArtLab has a program of exhibitions and cultural events. It is associated with the cultural and artistic affairs of the campus, which integrates culture and the arts into the daily lives of EPFL students and staff by organizing a wide variety of events. It is also a platform for digital culture, focused on innovation. The ArtLab programs events and workshops designed to foster and encourage innovation, spirit and business creation. Their goal is to become a reference platform in the Lake Geneva region in a first step, then on an international scale in a second step.

The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is the most cosmopolitan technical university in Europe. It welcomes students, professors and employees of more than 120 different nationalities. The school was founded in 1853 and had eleven students on its first benches. In 2003, during the celebration of the 150th anniversary, it had 6000 students. At the beginning of 2016, it was composed of 5 faculties, 2 colleges, 1 transdisciplinary entity, 23 institutes and 353 laboratories. 10'536 students were attending it to date. It is therefore one of the most famous science and technology institutions in Europe. Stefan Kudelski, the inventor of the Nagra quality tape recorder made EPFL. Daniel Borel, the founder of Logitech, also graduated from this highly reputed school. There is also Georges de Mestral, the inventor of the famous Velcro, and Franck Riboud, CEO of the Danone group who attended EPFL.

So we sponsored this Mental Work project from the beginning. We provided them with advice and material so that they could carry out their projects and advance the research. This factory of the future, in addition to being fun, will allow neuroscientific research to better understand the human brain and the signals it sends to make our limbs move. This will allow great progress in science and could, for example, eventually facilitate the life and autonomy of disabled people or those who have lost one or more members of their body. The man-machine interaction will be done thanks to a helmet equipped with sensors, which the worker will have on his head, and by opening and closing his hands, the machine will be activated. After the industrial revolution, we will experience the cognitive revolution. And Metallica is proud to be part of it.