The new IIT's lower limb prosthetic prototype Omnia secured first place (IMAGE)

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - IIT

The new IIT's lower limb prosthetic prototype Omnia secured first place

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Andrea Modica, Omnia's pilot, successfully completed 9 out of 10 tasks, including navigating a balance beam while carrying buckets, ascending and descending stairs with objects, and traversing an inclined plane, in a remarkable time of 2 minutes and 57 seconds out of a maximum of 6 minutes.

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Photo by ETH Zurich / Cybathlon / Alessandro Della Bella

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