Over the past decade, Pokémon Go players voluntarily submitted photos and short videos of public landmarks, street corners, storefronts, and urban intersections—all coming together to create a dataset that now stands at 30 billion images captured at ground level, across nearly every major city on the planet. Niantic Spatial, the enterprise AI and mapping division spun from Niantic Inc., has spent years converting that trove into something the robotics industry has never seen before: a photorealistic, street-level, continuously updated model of the physical world, built specifically for robots.
That model is now being deployed to navigate Coco Robotics’ roughly 1,000 delivery bot fleet operating in cities across the country and around the world
I had always assumed that data was the real gold mine of that game. I’m sure they made bank off MTs also but in my opinion they made that game primarily to collect that tracking data.
I had always assumed that data was the real gold mine of that game. I’m sure they made bank off MTs also but in my opinion they made that game primarily to collect that tracking data.
I had always assumed that data was the real gold mine of that game. I’m sure they made bank off MTs also but in my opinion they made that game primarily to collect that tracking data.