Did you play the viral Pokémon Go AR game back in 2016? It turns out the developers used your camera data to train modern 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A blog post on the Niantic website has gained the attention of numerous Pokemon Go fans and tech-savvy folks alike due to the company's lengthy description of its work training up a machine learning ...

Former Pokémon Go owner Niantic announced last week that it will be using the data generated by millions of users to assist AI delivery bots. Whether all those players explicitly consented or not, the ...

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