Dean Kamen

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Dean Lawrence Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, entrepreneur, and businessman.

He is best known for his invention of the Segway as well as founding Woodie Flowers, a non-profit group FIRST. He was born in Long Island, New York, but he dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced study for the insulin pump AutoSyringe.

He is Jack Kamen's uncle, and an illustrator for Mad, Weird Science, and other EC Comics publications.

Early life and family

Kamen was born on Long Island, New York, to a Jewish family. Jack Kamen, an illustrator for Mad, Weird Science, and other EC Comics publications, was his father. Kamen was already being rewarded for his ideas during his youth; local bands and museums paid him to install light and sound systems. Before his high school graduation, his annual earnings hit $60,000.

He attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute but dropped out before graduating in 1976 after five years of private advanced study on the insulin pump AutoSyringe.

Personal life

He dubbed Westwind, a hexagonal, shed style mansion, and he lived in Bedford, New Hampshire, just south of Manchester, 2007. The house has at least four levels and is extremely stylized, with items including hallways resembling mine shafts; 1960s novelty furniture; a set of vintage wheelchairs; and a complete machine shop; and a massive cast iron steam engine converted into a Stirling engine-powered kinetic sculpture. Kamen owns and pilots an Embraer Phenom 300 light jet jet aircraft as well as three Enstrom helicopters, including a 480FX and a 480B. He commutes to work by helicopters and has a hangar built into his house. In 2016, he flew as a passenger in a B-2 Spirit bomber at Whiteman AFB, marking the start of the 2016 FRC World Championship in St. Louis.

He is the subject of Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World, a nonfiction narrative book published by Harvard Business School Press in 2003 (revised in paperback as Reinventing the Wheel).

His company, DEKA, produces intricate mechanical gifts for him each year. The company has developed a robotic chess player that attaches to a chess board, a vintage-looking computer with antique wood, and a converted typewriter as a keyboard. In addition, DEKA has received DARPA funds to focus on the Luke Arm, a brain-controlled prosthetic arm.

Kamen is a member of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Advisory Board, as well as a member of the Xconomists, an ad hoc team of editorial advisors for the tech news and media firm, Xconomy. He is also on the Board of trustees of the X Prize Foundation.

On October 22, 2010, Dean of Invention, a TV show on Planet Green, premiered. In a series in which they research new technologies, it featured Kamen and reporter Joanne Colan.

Kamen was a keynote speaker at the 2015 Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders.

In the 2016 New Hampshire Senate primary election, Kamen endorsed Kelly Ayotte, who appeared in an ad defending her.

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Career

Kamen is best known for inventing the Segway PT, an electric, self-balancing human transporter with a computer-controlled gyroscopic stabilization and control system. The device is balanced on two parallel wheels and is adjusted by body weight change. Since segments of a book quoting Steve Jobs and other key IT visionaries who are preaching the machine's socioeconomic possibilities were leaked in December 2001, much doubt and apprehension had been expressed.

Kamen was already a great entrepreneur: his company, Auto Syringe, manufactures and sells the first drug infusion pump. 13 His company, DEKA also holds patents for the equipment used in portable dialysis machines, an insulin pump (based on the drug infusion pump design), 19 and an all-terrain electric wheelchair named 'iBOT,' which utilizes many of the same gyroscopic balancer technology that later made their way into Segway.

Kamen has been working on a project involving Stirling engine designs, aiming to produce two machines, one that would produce electricity, and the other that will act as a water purification device. He hopes that the initiative will help raise living conditions in developing countries. Kamen has a patent on his water purifier, and other patents are pending. The film SlingShot was released in 2014, describing Kamen's attempts to solve the world's water crisis.

In order to quickly deploy SWAT teams or other emergency personnel to the roofs of tall, inaccessible buildings, Kamen is also the co-inventor of a compressed air device that would launch a human into the air.

In 2009, Kamen announced that his company DEKA was now working on solar powered inventions.

The DEKA Arm System, or "Luke," a prosthetic arm replacement that gives the user much more precise motor control than conventional prosthetic limbs, was also produced by Kamen and DEKA. In May 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved it for use, and DEKA is searching for collaborators to mass-produce the prosthesis.

Kamen formed FIRST (for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an association aimed at raising student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Kamen, a 1992 graduate of MIT, founded the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), which has expanded to an international tournament with 3,647 teams and more than 91,000 students by 2020.

FIRST LEGO League Explore for Students in Grades 4–6, FIRST LEGO League Discover for younger elementary school and middle school students, FIRST LEGO League Challenge for middle and High School students, FIRST LEGO League Competition (FRC) for high school students, and FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) for high school students. In Washington, D.C., FIRST held its first Olympics-style competition, FGC (FIRST Global Challenge) in 2017.

Kamen claimed that FIRST is the invention he is most proud of, and that 1 million students have registered to compete in the competitions.

Kamen founded the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) in 2017 and opened BioFabUSA, a Manufacturing USA Innovation Institute, with a $80 million grant from the Department of Defense. BioFabUSA's goal is to "make feasible the large-scale manufacture of engineered tissues and tissue-related technologies" in order to support existing industries and develop new ones." In addition to DoD funding, Kamen brought together a consortium of private sector companies to form a public-private partnership that has pledged $214 million in additional private investment.

ARMI was given a grant by the Department of Health and Human Services in early 2020 to create the first Foundry for American Biotechnology, NextFab, "to provide technological services to help the United States defend and respond to health care challenges, improve daily medical services, and contribute to the United States' bioeconomy."

Kamen has received numerous accolades. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for inventing and commercializing biomedical devices, as well as popularizing engineering among young people. He was given the National Medal of Technology by then President Clinton in 1999 for inventing medical devices worldwide, and in 2000 he was given the Fifth Annual Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy, and Labor. Kamen received the Lemelson-MIT Award for Inventing the Segway and a diabetic Infusion Pump. By Time magazine, his "Project Slingshot," a cheap portable water purification device, was dubbed runner-up for "the coolest invention of 2003."

He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2005 for his invention of the AutoSyringe. The United Nations awarded Kamen the "Global Humanitarian Action Award" in 2006. In 2007, he received the ASME Medal, the highest award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and in 2011 Kamen was named winner of the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering of the Franklin Institute.

In 1992, he earned an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, a Doctor of Science degree from Clarkson University, an honorary doctorate from Clarkson University, and other honorary doctorates from the University of Arizona in 2005, 2010, and the University of Technology in 2008, which included two honorary doctorates from The University of Technology. Kamen was awarded an honorary Doctor of Engineering and Technology degree from Yale University in 2015. Kamen was awarded an honourary degree from Université de Sherbrooke in 2017.

On November 6, 2009, Kamen received the Stevens Honor Award from the Stevens Institute of Technology and the Stevens Alumni Association. He received the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award on November 14, 2013.

The National Science Board has given Kamen the 2018 Public Service Award, recognizing his outstanding public service and contributions to the public's understanding of science and engineering.

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