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Alex Pring

  • 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.
    UCF Grad Student's "Iron Man" Bionic Arm Goes Viral
    Nicole Darden Creston
    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.