Bionic Connections: How Artificial Arms Could Connect to the Nervous System
From: Scientific American - 12/26/2012
By: D. Kacy Cullen & Douglas H. Smith 

A new way to link artificial arms and hands to the nervous system could allow
the brain to control prostheses as smoothly as if they were natural limbs. 

Read the preview at:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-artifical-arms-could-connect-nervous-system

Institutional access
http://www.nature.com/scientificamerican/journal/v308/n1/full/scientificamerican0113-52.html

An interview with Cullen discussing biohybrid bridges and the future of
  prosthetic devices 
http://scientificamerican.com/jan2013/bionic-limb