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He was born in 1951, in Rockville center, Long Island, New York. His father was a illistrator for Weird Science And MAd Comic Books; Evelyn, was a teacher.
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After high school he attended Worceester polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
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In 1976 Kamen left WPI without graduating and founded his own company called Autosyringe to sell his medication device. Which is a machine that provides accurate continuous infusion
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Established FIRST in 1989 because he wanted kids to be excited about science.This is a compitetion where you have to build a robot to do certain things.
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In 1991 he founded another company called DEKA
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Kamen invented a portable kidney dialysis machine called home choice, which is used to purify blood.
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In 1999 he wowed the world with a machine he called the iBot 300 Mobility system, a stairclimbing wheelchair.
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He invented the segway. This machine is a self balancing super scooter
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This is a machine that purified water.
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The segway was recalledbecause riders was fallen off when the batteries went dead.
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He visited the African countriesof Rwanda and Bangladesh to demonstrate his new machine.
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The segway was not successful only six thousand machines sold, one reason was because the price was so high.