Yak, a species of bovid uniquely adapted to high-altitude environments, plays critical role in the life inhabitants Tibetan Plateau and neighboring areas. There is currently no consensus on when these animals may have been domesticated. In this paper, we review archaeological, genetic, linguistic evidence relevant question, suggest that domestication took place following hybridization with taur...

In this chapter we investigate real-time extensions for evolutionary mobile robot learning. The learning performance is measured in navigation experiments of complex environments as performed in a Kephera mobile robot simulator (YAKS). All these experiments are done in the context of our recently introduced motivation based interface that provides an intuitive human-robot communications mechani...