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Brad Waid @Techbradwaid

Global Keynote Speaker, PD & Coach. Events, Businesses & Schools. Click on the link to schedule a call. Let’s Talk! #AR/VR/XR/AI/ML/I40 Emerging Tech

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Brad Waid
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The tools will always change, but nothing can replace a teacher who understands a student. #edchat #edtech
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SAIL tech lets robots perform human-scale tasks far more quickly newatlas.com/robotics/sail-r…

SAIL tech lets robots perform human-scale tasks far more quickly

Thanks to researchers at Georgia Tech, robots have taken several new steps towards replacing human labor – and not simply for dangerous tasks such as mining the depths of the Earth and exploring the...

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Speak! Robot guide dogs converse with their owners newatlas.com/robotics/robot-…

Speak! Robot guide dogs converse with their owners

Since the early 1900s, dogs have helped people who are blind or have low vision to navigate their world. Now, in a very 21st century twist, seeing-eye dogs have gone robotic and added a skill that...

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Amazingly lifelike robofish is made for maintenance-free aquariums newatlas.com/robotics/bionic…

Amazingly lifelike robofish is made for maintenance-free aquariums

An aquarium can really add a touch of class to a home or business, particularly if it's got some fancy fish in it – but such fish can be very hard to keep. So, why not just buy a weirdly lifelike...

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Just call these tiny autonomous construction robots “antdroids” newatlas.com/robotics/tiny-a…

Just call these tiny autonomous construction robots “antdroids”

Roboticists at Harvard and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras – very smart folks indeed – somehow entirely missed the great name “antdroids” when building the insectoid drones they call RAnts...

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Motion-capture exoskeletons let violinists feel each others’ subtlest moves newatlas.com/robotics/motion…

Motion-capture exoskeletons let violinists feel each others’ subtlest moves

World-renowned science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood’s End) once quipped that “Any teacher who can be replaced by a computer should be.” Some people think Clarke’s...

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We’re losing STEM teachers–here are 5 ways to keep them and grow the ones we need eschoolnews.com/educational-…

We're losing STEM teachers--here are 5 ways to keep them and grow the ones we need

Recruiting and retaining STEM teachers isn’t just about filling vacancies--it’s about giving every student an opportunity to be inspired.

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Why early STEAM education unlocks the future for all learners eschoolnews.com/steam/2025/1…

Why early STEAM education unlocks the future for all learners

Delaying STEAM education and learning until later grades means we risk leaving behind countless children and narrowing the talent pipeline.

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Decision Education: A new approach to driving STEM workforce readiness eschoolnews.com/innovative-t…

Decision Education: A new approach to driving STEM workforce readiness

By integrating Decision Education into STEM, teachers can make learning more relevant and accessible to all students.

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Vibe Coding XR: Accelerating AI XR prototyping with XR Blocks and Gemini research.google/blog/vibe-co…

Vibe Coding XR: Accelerating AI XR prototyping with XR Blocks and Gemini

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Improving the academic workflow: Introducing two AI agents for better figures and peer review research.google/blog/improvi…

Improving the academic workflow: Introducing two AI agents for better figures and peer review

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Towards developing future-ready skills with generative AI research.google/blog/towards…

Towards developing future-ready skills with generative AI

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Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure” news.mit.edu/2026/teaching-a…

Teaching AI models to say “I’m not sure”

MIT CSAIL's “Reinforcement Learning with Calibration Rewards” technique improves AI confidence estimates without sacrificing performance, addressing a root cause of hallucination in reasoning models.

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Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere news.mit.edu/2026/bringing-a…

Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere

OpenProtein.AI is helping biologists stay on the cutting edge of AI with a no-code platform for protein engineering. It was founded by MIT alumni Tristan Bepler and Tim Lu.

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A faster way to estimate AI power consumption news.mit.edu/2026/faster-way…

A faster way to estimate AI power consumption

The EnergAIzer technique can predict how much power a certain AI workload will consume when run on a particular processor. This method could help data center operators and algorithm developers...

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Waymo raises $16bn to fuel global robotaxi expansion theguardian.com/technology/2…

Waymo raises $16bn to fuel global robotaxi expansion

The funding round valued the Alphabet subsidiary at $126bn as company aims to expand more cities worldwide

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Nvidia CEO reveals new ‘reasoning’ AI tech for self-driving cars theguardian.com/technology/2…

Nvidia CEO reveals new ‘reasoning’ AI tech for self-driving cars

Jensen Huang also announces at CES new, more powerful Vera Rubin chips that will arrive later this year

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US robotaxis undergo training for London’s quirks before planned rollout this year theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

US robotaxis undergo training for London’s quirks before planned rollout this year

Waymo cars have been earning their stripes by getting used to zebra crossings while awaiting a government green light

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We’re losing STEM teachers–here are 5 ways to keep them and grow the ones we need eschoolnews.com/educational-…

We're losing STEM teachers--here are 5 ways to keep them and grow the ones we need

Recruiting and retaining STEM teachers isn’t just about filling vacancies--it’s about giving every student an opportunity to be inspired.

eschoolnews.com
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Why early STEAM education unlocks the future for all learners eschoolnews.com/steam/2025/1…

Why early STEAM education unlocks the future for all learners

Delaying STEAM education and learning until later grades means we risk leaving behind countless children and narrowing the talent pipeline.

eschoolnews.com
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Decision Education: A new approach to driving STEM workforce readiness eschoolnews.com/innovative-t…

Decision Education: A new approach to driving STEM workforce readiness

By integrating Decision Education into STEM, teachers can make learning more relevant and accessible to all students.

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