The reporting

2 articles

Topic: world models

Four-panel chart comparing closed-loop robot tracking error as sensing blackouts, range noise, landmark availability and gyroscope bias change.

ANALYSIS Robotics

Measurement-Free Rollouts Often Chose the Wrong Estimator in a Robot Simulation

A controlled study found that offline predictions ranked state estimators more like feedback performance when they reproduced the robot’s measurement-update schedule.

Point-cloud representation of a person captured by a time-of-flight camera

ANALYSIS Science & Technology

Puffin-World gives generated scenes a sense of up

The new preprint makes camera orientation and depth explicit. That is useful spatial structure, with a narrower meaning of physics than the term world model might suggest.