DEKA Research & Development is a technology company based in Manchester, New Hampshire, founded in 1982 by inventor Dean Kamen. The company designs, develops, and manufactures technologies across a broad range of fields, with particular depth in medical devices, water purification, autonomous robotics, mobility enhancements, infusion systems, dialysis innovations, organ preservation, and regenerative manufacturing. Its campus spans the historic Amoskeag Millyard, and its work reaches markets worldwide.
The company employs nearly a thousand engineers, technicians, machinists, and designers, and holds a portfolio of more than 6,000 patents accumulated over more than thirty years of operation. That scale of intellectual output reflects an organisation structured around sustained, cross-disciplinary problem-solving rather than narrow product cycles.
DEKA describes its internal culture as that of a small, passionate team of problem solvers - a deliberate posture for a company of its size. Collaboration between engineers, technicians, and designers is central to how projects advance, and the organisation is oriented toward challenges where the ambition of the problem matches the depth of its technical capacity.
