One partner of this initiative is the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), who in 2005 signed a cooperation agreement with UNESCO through the Joint Research Laboratory of Remote Sensing for Archaeology.
The first of those took place last July, when Abderrahmane Kheddar, director of the CNRS-AIST joint robotics laboratory at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, Japan, and his team used FMRI to allow someone to control a robot located thousands of miles away using only their thoughts.
But this is scientific tool, a joint project by the University of Oklahoma and the National Sever Storms Laboratory (NOAA), and it is only interested in precipitation.