There was also a thing on NPR the other day about doctors & neuroscientists figuring out a way to hotwire prosthetic robot limbs directly into an amputee's nervous system, so they could, in effect, be a bionic man/woman with stength of ten ox. Or whatever.

I believe it's been prototyped on Cheney. His body will die, but his evil brain will live on to control a terminator-like exoskeleton.