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UCF Grad Student's "Iron Man" Bionic Arm Goes Viral

Actor Robert Downey Jr and 7-year-old Alex Pring of Groveland fist-bump with their bionic arms. Alex's was made by Limbitless, based in Orlando.
Actor Robert Downey Jr and 7-year-old Alex Pring of Groveland fist-bump with their bionic arms. Alex's was made by Limbitless, based in Orlando.

A video that’s gone viral shows Iron Man actor Robert Downey Jr. giving a young Central Florida boy, Alex Pring, a bionic arm that looks like Iron Man’s. That arm was made by a group called Limbitless. Its founder, Albert Manero, is a UCF engineering grad student and Fulbright Scholar working toward his PhD. He spoke with 90.7’s Nicole Creston.

Nicole came to Central Florida to attend Rollins College and started working for Orlando’s ABC News Radio affiliate shortly after graduation. She joined WMFE in 2010. As a field reporter, news anchor and radio show host in the City Beautiful, she has covered everything from local arts to national elections, from extraordinary hurricanes to historic space flights, from the people and procedures of Florida’s justice system to the changing face of the state’s economy.
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