the grand patriarch of this whole scene is irobot. many of these newer, smaller robotics companies were all started by former employees of irobot. rachel: irobot makes the roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner. sam: they do, and that is still their most famous robot, but irobot also makes robots for the military, the police. robots that will go anywhere you do not want to be or cannot be. ♪ >> so much has been done in hollywood around how robots will impact our lives. we set off to figure out what is keeping us from having the robots that we all dreamed of, and it has been an amazing journey. one of the exciting applications for robotics is to allow people to actually physically be somewhere they're not. if i could attend a meeting, if i could diagnose a patient from my office as opposed to having to travel, then the world would be a different place. sam: since you have started in the boston area, there have been many more robotics companies that have taken hold here, some of which actually come out of your company, is that correct? >> a

mary thompson has the latest installment of where the jobs >> reporter: a pioneer in robots irobot's neighborhood in bedford, massachusetts. eight years ago, you couldn't find another robots company for 150 miles and today, russ kap kapanelo said it's a different story. >> from this location you can catch a hundred companies that are doing some form of robots. >> reporter: a trend seen by boston consulting grum. estimated to hit $75 billion by 2025 up from estimated $27 billion this year. companying spending more as robots become easier to program and easier to afford. ten years ago, cost $250,000 and now some go for as little as $25. it can lead to big savings for manufacturers to buy into the next ten years of the robot revolution. >> we're thinking about something like a 16% drop in the labor cost for manufacturing plants over this time period. >> reporter: a computer auto electrical and machinery. >> this year we have plans to do the same. >> reporter: the labor market that remains the question. it's expected some manufacturers may bring work back from overseas if they find mixin

i will start at irobot, the pioneering company at the heart of it all. >> it has a very mars rover qualitychel: i will meet baxter, whose goal is to bring american jobs back from overseas. sam: i will visit harvest automation, which is developing robots to do the back-breaking work no one wants to do. >> our goal is to revolutionize agriculture. >> "bloomberg brink."

back to you. >> thank you. >> isaac has a book irobot. budget movie. >> of what? oh, a movie. >> yes. a movie. only got one star though in the post that i saw. isn't "i-robot" isaac? and they named the company after that. >>> coming up our panel gives their final predictions for the numbers. plus jim paulsen gets into the mix. "squawk box" will be right back. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you have enough money to live life on your terms? i sure hope so. with healthcare costs, who knows. umm... everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive confident retirement approach. now you and your ameripise advisor.... can get the real answers you need. start building your confident retirement today. barbara just bought a bike. she wrote a tweet about it. you can't learn much from that. but take data from millions of tweets combine that with your company's supply chain and sales data. apply ibm analytics and expertise, and all of a sudden, you can learn which bikes to build what to make them f

. >> i keep thinking of irobot. what happens if the drones gain their own native intelligence? end times scenario. >> i don't want those drones flying over me. we can't even 100% trust our police not to make mistakes. all police make mistakes, right? >> yeah. >> what if the drones decide to take out a threat? >> there is a serious security issue here. exactly. the idea that this security issue is being tackled by the concept of a man in the secret service with a giant butterfly net does not give me confidence. >> unless that man is will smith. >>> speaking of end times, the latest "wall street journal" poll finds support for marriage equality is at an all-time high. not in that majority ted cruz who last night told iowa evangelicals that he alone will do whatever it takes to stop it. is ted cruz just not worried about the big picture? he just seems so decidedly focused on the very narrow ted cruz lane of voter, that he just seems content to throw away what the rest of the country thinks. >> i'd like to encourage that. he did lose my vote over that statement. he wasn't going to