David Mindell, MIT Professor in Aerospace Engineering and the History of Technology, is the author of five books, including the recent “Our Robots, Ourselves.” He’s also a pilot and an expert on automated underwater subs who has collaborated with Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard and others in more than 25 underwater explorations. In 2015, he launched a Cambridge, Mass. startup called Humatics that is developing a microlocation system for positioning people and objects down to the millimeter scale.
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