this lab has strong corporate relationships with ties to apple, google, samsung and boeing. japanese carmaker putting $25 million into a center for research on self driving cars. here to help us chart this journey and take us to the front lines, the director of the computer science and artificial intelligence lab. thank you for joining us. how did boston become the place where robotics would explode? john: i think there's something special in the air at m.i.t.. we work across boundaries and work together to create systems to combine the best of multi-disciplines. a robot is one of the best embodiments of that. emily: you have said robots will pervade our lives. how so mark in five years, how will my life be different? daniella: it is true my dream is for everyone to use a robotlike everyone uses a smart phone today. to get to this point, we are making huge strides in making robots more intelligent, more able to figure things out. easier and faster to old new robots and making better ways for humans and robots to interact with each other. emily: paint the picture for me. how w