Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science

animated image of electronic device stretching

Stretching the Imagination

Yale engineers have developed a material and fabrication process that can rapidly make electronic circuits devices stretchier, more durable, and closer to being ready for mass manufacturing.

Faculty Spotlight

Brian Scassellati

Professor of Computer Science & Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science

Brian Scassellati's research focuses on building embodied computational models of human social behavior. Using computational modeling and socially interactive robots, Scassellati's Social Robotics Lab evaluates models of how infants acquire social skills and assists in the diagnosis and quantification of disorders of social development. Other interests include humanoid robots, humanrobot interaction, artificial intelligence, machine perception, and social learning.

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Taste and its two ways to the brain

There are a few ways we perceive food, and not all are particularly well-understood. We know that much of it happens in the olfactory bulb, a small lump of tissue between the eyes and behind the...