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How Pokémon Go helped train delivery robots

That time you pointed your phone at a statue to catch Pikachu? You were actually training robots to navigate city streets. Niantic Spatial announced their partnership with Coco Robotics on March 10, ...

If You Played Pokémon Go, Your Activity Was Used For Way More Than You Think

Discover how Pokémon Go AI data is used today. We explain how Niantic Spatial's VPS uses player camera scans to power Coco ...
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Pokemon Go's player-taken images and data used to train delivery robots

We've known for a while that the real reason Pokemon Go players were tasked with capturing footage of the real world was so it could be mapped, and not so that it could fill its AR version with more ...
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Pokemon Go players have been unwittingly training robots

Hundreds of millions of Pokemon Go players have unknowingly helped create an AI navigation system that will now be used by delivery robots. The augmented reality smartphone game, which uses a phone’s ...
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Just In Case You Ever Wanted to Play a Pokémon Battle With Giant Robots

Offworld is a new iOS (coming soon to Android) game that is, as the headline suggests, a lot like the battling side of Pokémon. Only, you’re using giant killer robots instead of small cute animals. It ...