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Updated: November 5, 2012
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CHICAGO -- An amputee made history becoming the first person to climb Willis Towers' 103 floors with a bionic leg. Zac Vawter took part in a charity climb for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Sunday.

He's being treated there after losing his leg in a motorcycle accident. Researchers spent months adjusting the leg to make sure it would respond to Vawter's thoughts.

They'll continue to refine the leg. Taking it to market is still years away.

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