so. >> this is exo's headquarters where the magic is made and perfected.people who are paralyzed a chance to do what they have been told was impossible. >> i feel like the luckiest man alive. >> nathan is one of the robot's inventers. not build for the are meat feed but for the credit military field. >> there's a huge problem in the field for soldiers carrying the large loads, in fact they want to carry more. we were helping to develop exoskeletons. to carry the person's weight and more as well. >> it can be powered by a small battery pack and then there's that whole walking thing. >> it takes over the function of the muscles in your legs. it can do that either completely, for a person who's completely paralyzed, or partially for someone who is rethroarng walk, like someone who -- credit relearning to walk, like someone who has just had a stroke. >> i put the device in walk-mode and take the first right step and as i move my body the exo will move with me. if i don't move to the any next position the exo stops. >> test pilots like amanda boxtel and jason g

culture, what was going to be a background chapter on the background on slavery became a whole book exo i was launched that way. >> did you teach them that? >> i did. >> that was supposed to be the first chapter, two of this. >> i anticipated i would be writing more. >> and those three books were the top ones? >> i am not sure exactly. probably justified that. >> in the wake of the narrative, both his parents were writers, mom and dad, father wrote the gable first film after the war. his mother was -- as well. was there a time when you thought i would like to be a writer as well? >> i was very much interested in writing that. i actually was an undergraduate, some summer classes at columbia university in france for language and writing fiction and was a pretty well-known moment. net for wind on after is that. >> i was struck i remember we had a discussion about the necessity to drop the atomic bomb on japan and i remember you telling me they told you when you were ready to prepare for the invasion of japan, that you were going to go away and die after watching that. >> i don't know about

the exo skeleton allows firefighters to take extra 200-pound by transferring weight of carried loads means firefighters don't have the bear the weight themselves. the suit dismantles for easy storage. the ex-owe skeleton will soon be ready for sale. life following art just like the movies. >> amazon is testing drones to deliver objects no larger than an ipad. u.s. navy is working on a $100 million project to use drones to drop off essential supplies to marines in remote locations. it would convert full-sized helicopters, pilotless, autonomous drones to deliver 5,000-pound of batteries, ammunition and water simply using ipad a app. it is still in. david: this is right out of the movies. turning a helicopter into a drone. we asked you on twitter and facebook if you think epa new rules on carbon emissions from power plants will increase your electricity bill. the administration says not. lisa on facebook says, without a doubt it will. >> country fan on twitter told us, of course it will. that's the plan. david: and joe on twitter says, yes. every excuse utilities have to raise our bills

and not only that, but cleat exo-- complete exoskeletons are next. we are going to bypass the spinal cord for these people. think of the people who are injured because of car accidents, strokes, football accidents on the football field. hundreds of them, thousands of people who are parly or -- partially or fully paralyzed. we're going to make sure they walk again by bypassing the spinal cord. now, at duke university there's one scientist from brazil. he's creating this exoskeleton for somebody who is totally paralyzed so that he can start the world cup soccer games in brazil. so the next time you watch the international soccer cup games in brazil, they will be initiated by somebody who is a vegetable, totally paralyzed, with an exoskeleton. and in japan they're looking at surrogates, avatars like the movie, "avatar. "in the movie you are in a pod, and you control mentally another being. this is now japan where we have a robot connected to a man with electrodes, and he controls the robot. this could be the future of police work, firemen, emergency wor

s like an exo tensional conflict but they're losing sales to other people too.nd sears had a chance to pick sales up. looks like they didn't. >> after the jobs number decent for the last month today new evidence credit availability to small business pushed high. >> a good number that shows small business is spending. that's terrific. a lot of payroll processing companies will benefit from that too. it's not a bad situation. not a bad setup. interest rates down today. you know what got to be careful. that had been a sign that you should sell stocks. >> yeah. >> i don't know. we got a head of steam coming into this session. >> we'll get the opening bell a few moments away and as we said david's exclusive with the ceo of big blue, ginni rometty when "squawk on the street" returns. so ally bank really has no hidden fees on savings accounts? that's right, no hidden fees. it's just that i'm worried about, you know, "hidden things." ok, why's that? well uhhh... surprise!!! um... well, it's true. at ally there are no hidden fees. not one. that's nice. no hidden fees, no

exo steshlal noncrisis. >> tequila will do that to you. >> mecall. i don't drink te keel la. had to cut back the after cacdo. we didn't give lime last night. his wife marina -- i'm sorry i don't mean this is bad. her granola every bit as good as judy's. >> cut back on limes. thought you were sticking with the limes. serving the customer. >> not for me but the customers get the limes. >> okay. >> i don't need to take the limes. i did no bussing for the record. >> when we come back, cramer as mad dash. we'll count down to the opening bell. take one more look at premarket here with futures down just a touch. "squawk on the street" continues in a moment. predicting the future is a pretty difficult thing to do. but, manufacturing in the united states means advanced technology. we learned that technology allows us to be craft oriented. no one's losing their job. there's no beer robot that has suddenly chased them out. the technology is actually creating new jobs. siemens designed and built the right tools and resources to get the job done. >>> we got about eight minutes before the