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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, ...

Players chasing down a rare Snorlax or trying to pin a Pikachu to their pavement in Pokémon Go may have been doing more than just "catching them all" - they’ve also been unknowingly helping train real ...

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 ...

Coco Robotics’ new Coco 2 delivery bot can leave the sidewalk for streets and bike lanes, using Niantic Spatial’s visual positioning tech to navigate dense city routes more precisely. Coco Robotics is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A decade after the global craze for Pokémon Go peaked, an AI company has been using billions of real-world images captured by millions of players to develop navigation technologies for delivery robots ...