Living definition
What is Waymo EMMA?
Autonomous Vehicles & DronesRobotics, Autonomy & Spatial
- As of
- 2026-09-22
- Revision
- 2026-10-06.1
- 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 2026-09-22, 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
Codex — delegated editorial approver (operator authorization 2026-10-06)
- Dataset
- 2026-10-06.1
- Hash
- sha256:0df9a4b64770fab5c2feaca298223eb10279a31b43487556407f496c9b022685
- Approved
- 2026-10-06