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Is there explicit canon on how the cybernetics interface with the body? Maybe it’s possible that the implants do a lot of the work themselves, and all the ripperdocs need is a moderate level of specialization to put things in pretty much the right place.
Deus Ex Human Revolution was the only cyberpunk property to base it on real-world robotic prostheses, basically leveraged from a mixture of myoelectric-prosthesis (using grafted exo and bio-skeletal augmentations or implementations to "enhance" basic human mobility or functionality) and separate software interfaces not unlike Elon's Neuralink.
Myoelectric prosthesis exists already: https://jneuroengrehab.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12984-025-01604-0
The more advanced form of attaching the prosthetic onto a surgically grafted metal bone where the missing limb used to be has also been successfully tested by DARPA....
https://youtu.be/sk1NkWl_W2Y
....but it's not very convenient or cost-effective right now. It's also known as robotic osseoprotheses or osseointegration: https://www.hss.edu/health-library/conditions-and-treatments/list/osseointegration
Some of the advancements in the field have included getting still live nerve endings to interact with the electric impulses from a robotic prosthetic, so that it acts like a normal limb. Alternatively, there is the third-party software, oftentimes referred to in cyberpunk fiction as "wetware" that interfaces between the human mind and the prosthetic/implant to function as necessary. Most of that software is relegated to app-controlled software on smartphones at the moment:
https://youtu.be/VTs8wnMsh0k?t=207
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgC7la_3IIA