Andrew Mc Carthy
June, 1986
Shanghai-born Yik San Kwoh, Ph.D., had a problem. He and his staff of medical engineers at Memorial Medical Center in Long Beach, California, were face to circuits with an industrial robot---the type that can do precision work on assembly lines---and they felt lost. They knew what they wanted the robot to do---the delicate task of probing the human brain---but they were baffled by the machine itself."We got the robot," Dr. Kwoh remembers, "but we didn't know what to do with it. We...
