Restoring Sense of Touch to Amputees
From: Medical Design Technology - 04/25/2014

DARPA's new Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) program seeks
to deliver naturalistic sensations to amputees, and in the process, enable
intuitive, dexterous control of advanced prosthetic devices that substitute
for amputated limbs, provide the psychological benefit of improving
prosthesis "embodiment", and reduce phantom limb pain. The program builds on
neural-interface technologies advanced during DARPA's Revolutionizing
Prosthetics and Reliable Neural-Interface Technology (RE-NET) programs that
made major steps forward in providing a direct and powerful link between user
intent and prosthesis control.

If it is successful, the HAPTIX program will create fully-implantable,
modular, and reconfigurable neural-interface microsystems that communicate
wirelessly with external modules, such as the prosthesis interface link.
Because such technology would have broad application and could fuel future
medical devices, HAPTIX also plans to fund teams to pursue the science and
technology that would support next-generation HAPTIX capabilities.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/04/restoring-sense-touch-amputees

Links:
Revolutionizing Prosthetics
http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/BTO/Programs/Revolutionizing_Prosthetics.aspx

Reliable Neural-Interface Technology (RE-NET)
http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/BTO/Programs/Reliable_Neural-Interface_Technology_RE_NET.aspx

By Restoring Sense of Touch to Amputees, HAPTIX Seeks to Overcome Physical
  and Psychological Effects of Upper Limb Loss
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/04/24.aspx

Hand Proprioception & Touch Interfaces (HAPTIX) 
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&id=ee79f73d2dbe7281ee556023c9739faf

Related:
New Nerve and Muscle Interfaces Aid Wounded Warrior Amputees
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2013/06/new-nerve-and-muscle-interfaces-aid-wounded-warrior-amputees

Nerve Interface for Direct Sensory Feedback
http://www.mdtmag.com/videos/2013/06/nerve-interface-direct-sensory-feedback