Humans and animals are incredibly adept when it comes to adapting to their environments. For example, when humans step on ice, it only takes a few shuffles of our feet for us to learn to glide. Instilling similar adaptive abilities in robots, though, has...
This story is the fourth in a series about Yale’s evolution under President Peter Salovey as he prepares to return to the faculty at the end of this month.
One recent afternoon, physicist Larry Gladney, dean of science for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...