Giulio is a 4 year-old boy from Palestrina, Italy who is over the moon after receiving a brand new bionic arm!

Giulio was born with an underdeveloped arm that ends right below the elbow, which came as a surprise to his mother Samuela Sarda, as ultrasounds did not detect this birth defect in her son.

“When these things happen you either let them get to you and live unhappily, or you stand up and fight and life becomes even more beautiful than before,” she said. “When Giulio was born, his brother Leonardo was home waiting for us, and that’s what gave us the strength to get back and start fighting to make Giulio’s life a normal and happy one.”

Samuela and her husband Massimo followed through with this promise by getting Giulio a prosthetic arm when he was just a few months old. Since this prosthetic was not really practical, however, they recently decided to upgrade him to a bionic arm that he can move using electronic signals.

“When Giulio was younger, he had a fake arm which he couldn’t do anything with,” Samuela explained. “Early on we decided to call the arm ‘Energy,’ a name that his brother Leonardo picked after a cartoon he had watched. It just felt nicer than telling him to go get his prosthetic arm. The name stuck and now even doctors at the clinic call it ‘Energy.’”

“For many this could look like a simple mechanical movement, but for someone who doesn’t have a hand, this is a miracle,” she added.

With his new bionic arm, Giulio is happier than ever! Check out his reaction to it in the video below!