Robotics, Education, FIRST Juha-Pekka Tikka wrote: Most of the teams that gathered at the San Diego Sports Arena last week came from the American Southwest—from places like Flagstaff, AZ, and El Centro, CA. One team came all the way from Pennsylvania. Another came from Brazil. But these teams ...

It's something that any hard-nosed entrepreneur likely deals with when their invention / startup is on the edge of fail: should they simply throw in the towel, or forge ahead like no one's looking? The father of the Segway, Dean Kamen, is also wrestling with that question. In a recent interview, he ...

By Kevin Maney, Editor, Tech Observer, Portfolio.com Blaise Zerega misses $4/gallon gasoline: The Segway is a huge success–as a technology product. But even as high gas prices have increased sales, as reported by WSJ today, it’s hard to term it a business success. And for that reason, gr...

I wrote about the Luke Arm some time ago - you remember, the robotic arm that's amazingly like the one Luke Skywalker got in The Empire Strikes Back ?  Anyway, according to Engadget the guy who created it, Dean Kamen, has made some serious progress with it. Now it has neural interface.  Th...

DEKA Research founder and Segway creator Dean Kamen comes to D6 to demonstrate his “Luke Arm” prosthesis. Named after the artificial limb worn by Luke Skywalker in “Star Wars,” the state-of-the-art bionic arm looks and feels to its user like his or her native arm. Walt and Ka...