# David Mindell
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David P. Mindell is an American evolutionary biologist and author. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Mindell's work is focused on the systematics, conservation and molecular evolution of birds, especially birds of prey.
Episode 15-43 Robots .. not what people think ..
On this episode of Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MIT professor DAVID MINDELL co-founder of Humatics Corporation about his book “Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy.” He's here to discuss what robots are capable of and what we might want to rethink whether it's driverless ca...
Final Episode: David Mindell on What It Takes to Power an Industrial Revolution
David Mindell is a historian, an engineer, a startup founder, a venture investor—and now the author of The New Lunar Society: An Englightenment Guide to the Next Industrial Revolution. The 2025 MIT Press volume is all about James Watt, Matthew Boulton, and the other inventors and entrepreneurs wh...
AI, Industry, and the Human Story with MIT’s David Mindell
AI is often described as a revolution, but every technological leap has deep roots in the human story. In this episode of Augmented Ops, MIT Professor and author David Mindell joins Tulip CEO Natan Linder to discuss how history can help us navigate the rise of intelligent systems.
Mindell, a hi...
Episode 16-26 Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy
On this week’s Tech Nation, Moira speaks withMIT professor DAVID MINDELL about “Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy.” He’s out to dispel the “persistent misconceptions about robots.”Then on BioTech Nation, what biotech is doing for rare diseases in boys – progress in hemophi...
Episode 15-43 Robots .. not what people think ..
On this episode of Tech Nation, Moira speaks with MIT professor DAVID MINDELL co-founder of Humatics Corporation about his book “Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy.” He's here to discuss what robots are capable of and what we might want to rethink whether it's driverless ca...
“Everything Evolves” and the Generalised Evolutionary Theory with Professor Mark Vellend
The idea that evolutionary theory applies far beyond biology is not new. Yet one major obstacle to the broader acceptance of a generalised evolutionary theory is our tendency to begin with biology and extend outward from it. This approach obscures an important historical fact. Long before scienti...
The Demo Was Never the Hard Part: David Mindell on What It Takes to Deploy
Brad turns the tables on his former MIT professor, David Mindell. David is a historian, deep-ocean robotics pioneer, founder of Humatics, and now an investor in industrial transformation through his firm Unless. They trace the thread from James Watt’s steam engine to robots two miles deep in the ...
“The Evolution of Imperfection: The Science of Why We Aren’t and Can’t Be Perfect” with Professor Laurence Hurst
Evolution is often described as a process of constant improvement. Yet many features of human biology challenge this assumption. Genetic diseases remain common. Large parts of our DNA appear to serve no clear purpose. Pregnancy is also highly inefficient, and many fertilised eggs do not survive.
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Episode 70 - A Roadmap for Thinking About the Future of Industry
Answering YES to the question today is David Mindell, Author, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing at MIT.
In this episode, we talk about:
Reindustrialising without wrecking the environment
How we focus too much on new products i...
Can “reindustrializing” priority technologies on American soil also reduce inequality?
They’re called priority technologies. And yes, Artificial Intelligence is one of them, but it’s not the only one. And it seems like almost every day a new US vulnerability in these strategically critical products and commodities is exposed. The Iran War is laying bare the American military’s lack...
