A new era of EU energy policy? Delivering on the Energy Union by National Plans. CEPS Commentary, 6 June 2017 [PDF]
Prior to the adoption of the EU’s 2030 Framework for Energy and Climate and its subsequent endorsement by the European Council in 2014,[1] the delivery of European objectives for 2020, the needed predictability for investors and transparency for citizens
Zannier, Leonardo, Anger, Niels
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Leveraging automotive fuel cells can supply zero-emission peak power in the near-term
Summary: An increasingly decarbonized yet resilient power grid requires the corresponding build-out of dispatchable zero-emission resources to supply peak power.
Emilia Chojkiewicz, Amol Phadke
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder +3 more
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The Conference of the Parties (COP26 and 27) placed significant emphasis on climate financing policies with the objective of achieving net zero emissions and carbon neutrality. However, studies on the implementation of this policy proposition are limited.
Hermas Abudu +2 more
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Russia and the Caspian States in the Global Energy Balance [PDF]
Russia controls the major pathways for oil and natural gas exports from the hydrocarbon-rich Caspian countries,which will be a major international energy security concern with implications for Europe, Japan and the United ...
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
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Autonomous Navigation of Pollen‐Inspired Magnetic Microrobots for Biomedical Applications
A sunflower pollen‐inspired magnetic microrobot enables controlled rolling navigation in vessel‐like environments. Its open geometry reduces hydrodynamic drag, while vision‐based closed‐loop control, shortest‐path planning, and reinforcement learning support target‐reaching and maze navigation with microrobot‐scale accuracy, highlighting a route toward
Ali Anil Demircali +6 more
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New Energy Technologies: A Policy Framework for Micro-Nuclear Technology
Paper from Energy Forum study "New Energy Technologies: A Policy Framework for Micro-Nuclear ...
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
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EU climate and energy policy: hope for more and better climate policy integration? IES Policy Brief Issue 2014/02/January 2014 [PDF]
Summary. With discussions on-going in the EU on the climate and energy policy framework to 2030, it is timely to assess the reality of climate policy integration into EU energy policy. Such an analysis can lead to lessons for the legislative process for
Dupont, Claire
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Flexible Sensors for Robotics Tactile Perception: A Review
Flexible tactile sensing for robotics is reviewed through four interconnected dimensions. Physical mechanisms include piezoresistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, triboelectric, iontronic, and optical sensing. Structural design includes bioinspired, defect‐based, and MEMS‐based tactile systems.
Yu Song, Ying Chen, Yihao Chen, Xue Feng
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