[littlewing]

Hopefully the military is supporting this research also. Lots of vets with missing limbs that could use this. Maybe one day a soldier could even go back to active duty after losing a limb if they wanted.

[joeyo]

They are. See: http://www.darpa.mil/program/revolutionizing-prosthetics and http://www.darpa.mil/program/hand-proprioception-and-touch-i... among others.