About us: company’s history
1993: My car smashed against the guard rail due to the steering block, and my leg did as well. Undesired fate: a leg amputated below the knee. At the hospital, Niguarda in Milan, Battista Galliani, the water ski champion amputee came to visit me. Galliani began to jump in front of me, on his healthy leg and in the same way on his artificial limb. At that moment I realized I wanted to start running. 1994: I went to INAIL, the Italian Institute for medical assistance against accidents at work, to get my first prosthesis. I received my first artificial limb.
1996: Tony Volpentest at Atlanta Paralympic Games was another turning point in my life: he ran 100m in 11.38 seconds. Such a record!! I realized technology could help me running again. I strongly decided I could run to the Paralympics Games. I started training and running as a sportsman.
1997: I met the Polisportiva Milanese, and some months later Engineer Verni and the orthopedic technician Sermasi realized the first running prosthesis. 1998: I began my athletic career. I won many races: from Italian to European Championship (4th in 200m and long jump, 2003-Assen), to Global championship and Paralympic Games in Athens in 2004 (6th in the long jump). Paralympic Games changed my life both as an athlete and as a man: I met people from all over the world able to live their lives, everyone facing with their disabilities in different ways but every time winners.
2005: It was now time to change my life again! I left my work and starting the Ph.D. by Mechanical department of Politecnico of Milan to develop a running prosthesis foot.
2007: Born Roadrunnerfoot Engineering s.r.l., as Politecnico of Milan spin off during my doctorate in order to allow the diffusion of high technology for all users.
2007-2011 International patents about prosthetic feet
2010 Start of internal production ( composite line production for feet, orthesis and whelchairs in carbon fiber, metallic parts production as adapters and knee joint)
2010-2014 Bigger humanitarian project (haiti, Lybia and Syria)
2016 purchase of new HEADQUARTER (1000 square meter)
2024 start orthopaedic laboratory to produce customized parts on the patient with new digital methodology to realize the socket
Made in Italy: Italian design excellence
Made in Italy design has always been synonymous with style, elegance and quality craftsmanship. Italy has been a hotbed of talent and creativity, and the Italian approach stands out for its ability to combine aesthetics with innovation, creating objects that are both functional and beautiful.
Roadrunnerfoot Engineering s.r.l. is the first Italian company that designs, manufactures, and sells aids for disabled people and components for prostheses.
Roadrunnerfoot Engineering s.r.l. set in Milan Italy since March 2007, is a manufacturer and distributor of innovative walking and running prosthetic feet. The company includes the engineering office and the manufacturing line, offering support before, during, and after-sale.
30 july 2024 Mazzola Foundation and Mr Carlo Mazzola are new Roadrunnerfoot’s co-owners
www.fondazionemazzola.it
About us: our certificates
Roadrunnerfoot Engineering s.r.l. Is the first Italian enterprise to engineer, design, produce and sell devices for disabled people, following the whole production chain from the engineering to the after sale assistance.
Our products offer high-quality standards. They are high performance, innovative materials, controlled during the production process
We are certified by Directive 93/42/EEC, successive Regulation MDR (EU) 2017/745, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 13485:2016.
TESTING OF PRODUCTS BY POLITECNICO OF MILAN
Roadrunnerfoot is the only company in all the world that tests your products external-ly, by the University of Politecnico in Milan. After testing Politecnico give one official report about the test of products and we send all the document to the health ministry in order to have the CE conformity and the certification.
Since 2016 Roadrunnerfoot start the collaboration whit Berlin Cert:
ROADWALKING is the first carbon fiber foot tested and validated from Berlin Cert.
Roadrunnerfoot. High technology new approach.
Each product is designed considering users’ needs: we start from Gait Analysis, with normal and disabled people, to define components characteristics, in order to simulate sound limbs.
INNOVATION
METHODOLOGY
PROTOTYPE LAB
MOULD PRODUCTION
CUTTING COMPOSITE LAMINATE
ASSEMBLY
AREA
MARKED CE
GAIT ANALYSIS LAB
for prothesis
validation
TESTING
REHABILITATION
About us: our patents
Roadrunnerfoot Engineering s.r.l. has five patents:
https://patents.google.com/?assignee=Roadrunnerfoot&oq=Roadrunnerfoot SK = Sprinter’s KING – the USA and Europe patent
RW = Roadwalking – the USA and Europe patent
Roadflexion as a variant of Roadwalking
JOKER
Monocoque wheelchair
Sprinter’s KING – the USA and Europe patent
Roadwalking – the USA and Europe patent
Roadflexion patent
Joker patent
Monocoque wheelchair patent
