Dean Kamen, who invented the Segway almost 20 years ago, is still busy inventing. Now, at the age of 69, he is working on the most ambitious project of his career: manufacturing organs. Photos: Tony Luong

The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs

When the FDA approves lab-grown human organs for patients, Dean Kamen wants to be ready to mass-produce them

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12 min readJun 17, 2020

This past January, the umpteenth version of the Segway Personal Transporter whisked attendees around in its white, egg-shaped seat at CES, the huge annual consumer…

The Segway’s Inventor Has a New Project: Manufacturing Human Organs

When the FDA approves lab-grown human organs for patients, Dean Kamen wants to be ready to mass-produce them

Written by Liz Brody