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Living definition

What is Waymo EMMA?

Autonomous Vehicles & Drones Robotics, Autonomy & Spatial

As of
2026-07-23
Revision
2026-07-25.0
Method
v1.3.0

Definition

The term, in context

AI-assisted draft · approved dataset

Waymo EMMA is an end-to-end multimodal driving model built by Waymo on a large multimodal foundation model, taking camera images and other sensor data as input and directly generating driving trajectories and behavior predictions within a single unified network rather than a pipeline of separate perception and planning modules.

Live readiness status

Status as of the current dateline

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

As of 2026-07-23, verified readiness is 30 (claimed 35, reported 35, gap 5) — Strong evidence strength; current signals suggest Too early to adopt.

The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for Waymo EMMA.

Dataset approval

Human editorial release

pragma.vision editorial — standing authorization (operator dev@soft.house, 2026-07-17)

Dataset
2026-07-25.0
Hash
sha256:a11c1791b16a17cb71908f5839e4adce20feb5614a6564d4910b1665c0b073c7
Approved
2026-07-25

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