to regional competitions and finally a national competition competing to see who has the best designed robot. How did this program begin? Dean Kamen‚ a distinguished inventor and president of DEKA Research‚ started this program in 1992 with only 19 teams. His main goal was to introduce and teach students in the fields of science and technology. Dean believes that today’s students will be the adults who change the world in the future. The program helps students to do better in school and promotes
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Background: Segway LLC is a company created by Dean Kamen in 2002 to manufacture and market the Segway Human Transporter. The SHT is a personal transport vehicle held upright by gyroscope technology. It is for use on and off-road‚ for recreation and commuting‚ by police departments and for government/military uses. Some of the SHT’s weaknesses include the $100 million development price tag and its high selling cost of over $4‚500. A third weakness for the SHT is that Segway has not created
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Getting to Know the iBotTM 1. Who is Dean Kamen? Dean L. Kamen (born April 5‚ 1951) is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire. Born in Rockville Centre‚ New York‚ he attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute‚ but dropped out before graduating after five years of private advanced research for drug infusion pump AutoSyringe. He is the son of Jack Kamen‚ an illustrator for Mad‚ Weird Science and other EC Comics publications. Kamen is best known for inventing the product
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opportunities. Dean Kamen also fails to realize that his executives may not share his grand vision for the Segway as passionately as he does. Kamen needs set aside his loyalty and remove Adams and Ferry from their positions. These two positions‚ especially at such an early stage in the company will dictate how successful the product will be. He will need to fill the positions with much more capable people who have experience with consumer technology products. Vision: Kamen is never able to
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was a cold dreary morning on December 20‚ 1999 as Dean Kamen – inventor‚ founder and owner of DEKA‚ a Manchester‚ New Hampshire R&D company – began his annual speech to his employees. The entire staff had gathered “to hear him talk about the past year‚ the year ahead‚ and whatever else had been gnawing at him lately. The speech was usually equal parts lecture‚ oration‚ pep talk‚ and homily‚ all of it seasoned with wisecracks. After the speech‚ Dean always called each employee’s name and gave out Christmas
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efficient‚ [and] maneuverable.” Despite all the benefits of the Segway and the careful thought process that went into its production‚ it still faces a large concern; will this machine be viewed as a toy? This is the primary concern of Kamen and rightfully so. Kamen knows that many consumers will view it as an expensive toy as opposed to a revolutionary form of transportation. Additionally‚ since the Segway’s physical design is not visually ground-breaking‚ it does
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SEGWAY In 2001‚ Dean Kamen announced the arrival of the first self-balancing‚ zero emissions personal transportation vehicle: the Segway® Personal Transporter (PT). Founded on the vision to develop highly-efficient‚ zero-emission transportation solutions using dynamic stabilization technology‚ Segway’s research and development was focused on creating devices that took up a minimal amount of space‚ were extremely maneuverable and could operate on pedestrian sidewalks and pathways. In 2006‚ the
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INTRODUCTION In December 2001‚ Dean Kamen of Segway LLC unveiled the Human Transporter HT. With lofty ideas of replacing the automobile and unrealized sales forecasts‚ Kamen’s Segway HT has not moved mankind nearly as much as Kamen had expected. With an annual CEO change since start-up‚ it is apparent that Segway’s lack of a stated vision and mission is haunting the organization. The lack of "a way ahead"‚ coupled with a less than well defined marketing strategy‚ has caused Segway to fall
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Segway By Mona Alsheddi Kettering University Jan 26th‚ 2011 1. Abstract This paper discusses the innovation of the new personal transporter: Segway. It gives a brief description of the Segway is a self-balancing electric vehicle invented by Dean Kamen and produced by Segway Inc. in 2001. The name Segway came from an Italian word means “follows”. (1) As any other transportation device‚ Segway is used to move from one place to another‚ yet it used to move among places that are close to each other
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providing institutions and individuals with environmental-friendly‚ economical‚ modern and efficient modes of transportation. Its most popular product is the Segway PT‚ a two-wheeled‚ self-balancing‚ electrically-generated vehicle‚ which was invented by Dean Kamen (Higginbotham‚ 2008 & Blackwell‚ 2007). More information about its products and how the business works are found in Segway ’s website‚ a user-friendly and easy-navigation online portal. Although Segway may not reach a huge mass of consumers and
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