When he began using a prosthetic leg soon thereafter, its limitations were obvious. “The first one I got was a basic free-swing hinge,” Schultz recalls. “It would swing when I walked, but if I got it wrong, it would just collapse and I’d fall over.”
Schultz didn’t just want to walk. He wanted to compete again. But existing prosthetics didn’t support the squatting positions his favorite action sports demand. So, he decided to make his own prosthetic.
“I went full ‘mad scientist’ in my garage,” continues Schultz, who used his experiments to establish the company BioDapt in 2010. His first product—a prosthetic knee called the Moto Knee—uses a…
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