totally new. i am going to have to have a kind of a dance, let's say, right? i am going to have to have the team go to the place and pick up something, drop off something, mix something, et cetera. >> the idea was the pipette poked holes into these little plastic containers with reagents in them. it mixes some of the reagents with blood. >> i was responsible for developing 60 different tests and trying to get them work with the edison. >> the trick was how to make it dependable, and how do you incorporate it into a bigger process that involves these 50 milliliter samples. >> it was a complex device, a lot of moving parts and a complicated system. it's not easy to do all this stuff. i figured we'd get there. >> we felt we were on the path to be able to make machines that could do this.