Verification register Robotics, Autonomy & Spatial
Current reading
The readiness gap, in one scan
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
- Claimed
- 35
- Reported
- 35
- Verified
- 30
- Gap
- +5
Public ambition and stated capability
Observed practitioner reporting
Independently supported evidence
Claimed minus verified
Evidence strength Strong
Decision
What the current evidence supports
Human editorial judgment · 2026-06-28
Too early to adopt
- Why
- Waymo itself labels EMMA as foundational research with explicit, self-stated limitations (4-frame window, no LiDAR/radar, latency); it is not deployed and is outside pv's domain — interesting as a multimodal-model signal only.
- Next
- Track follow-on work (closed-loop sensor sim, LiDAR/radar fusion, frame-window expansion, open-source reproductions like OpenEMMA/LightEMMA) and whether Waymo moves EMMA from research toward any on-vehicle component.
Constraints
Blockers
No named blocker is present in the current public projection.
Evidence summary
Derived counts
AI-assisted assembly
- Total
- 8
- Tier 1
- 0
- Tier 2
- 3
- Tier 3
- 5
- Supports
- 5
- Contradicts
- 2
- Context
- 1
- Latest observed
- 2025-09-23
Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.
Publication record
Revisions
Initial public reading
This is the initial public reading. No earlier readiness change is recorded.