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"With the help of a robotic harness, some drugs and electrodes, rats with severed spinal cords are sprinting and climbing up stairs! Someday, a similar method of neurorehabilitation could help restore leg movement in paralyzed humans." The technique replaces damaged neural connections.

Full story from smartplanet.com here.
Sweet, I can't wait to get a cybernetic arm I figure if we will know how to get damaged limbs working then it should be only logical to make mechanical replacements that respond to those same nerves.