THE RESEARCH ATLAS

World models & simulation

How are future states modeled? Generation quality, physical consistency and closed-loop evaluation are different questions.

2026-09-28 · Unitree · Official open-source projectInstitution base · Unitree Robotics 🇨🇳 China

UnifoLM-WLA-1.0: One Model Driven, Whole-Body Coordination

Connects embodied understanding, interaction-centric world modeling and action learning for tabletop and whole-body humanoid manipulation.

2026-04-01 · XPeng · Official research articleInstitution base · XPeng 🇨🇳 China

XPeng X-World: Controllable Multi-View Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving

Describes a controllable multi-view world model used for driving simulation, scenario generation, and evaluation.

2025-04-22 · Huawei · Official research articleInstitution base · Huawei Intelligent Automotive Solution 🇨🇳 China

Huawei Qiankun ADS 4: World Engine and World Behavior Model (WEWA)

Huawei's official WEWA description links generated scenarios in a cloud world engine with an on-vehicle world behavior model.

2025-01-07 · NVIDIA · Technical reportInstitution base · NVIDIA 🇺🇸 United States

Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI

A platform of video curation, tokenizers, pretrained world models and post-training for physical-AI applications.

2023-09-29 · Wayve · Research paperInstitution base · Wayve 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

GAIA-1: A Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving

Models video, text and vehicle actions as sequences to generate conditioned driving scenes and possible futures.

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