Eighteen months ago Segway entrepreneur and serial inventor Dean Kamen received a visit from Anthony Tether, the electrical engineer who runs the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the military’s research and development...
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Eighteen months ago Segway entrepreneur and serial inventor Dean Kamen received a visit from Anthony Tether, the electrical engineer who runs the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the military’s research and development agency. Mr. Tether had come to Mr. Kamen’s rural western Massachusetts workshop to persuade him to tackle a challenging engineering problem: a robotic arm that would make it possible for any of the 1,600 or more Iraq veteran amputees to resume a semblance of a normal life. Mr. Kamen, who designed the two-wheeled Segway balancing transporter and several high tech wheel chairs, and who has a wealth of robotic engineering expertise, said that he initially thought the idea “was nuts.” Check out the video to see how nuts. The progress that Mr. Kamen has been able to make was on display in Anaheim, Calif., this week at DARPAtech 2007, an annual trade conference for the $3.1 billion Pentagon agency, in the form of a 9-pound robotic arm and hand that has as much computing power as 14 PCs. It
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