A 30-billion-image dataset built by players over the last decade is now being used to train an AI navigation system ...

Niantic’s spatial AI, built partly from optional scans submitted through its AR games, is now helping delivery robots ...

The hit mobile game Pokémon GO has come under scrutiny following claims that images captured within the app may have been ...

How Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of 30 billion crowdsourced photos and data into the most precise urban navigation system delivery robots ever had.

Leave the home, turn right and point your camera at the Poké Stop, all to capture an imaginative and generated Pokémon that would be yours. When Pokém.

Over 10 years of Pokémon GO location mapping data is being used to help power Coco Robotics' autonomous couriers, helping ...

Most people reading this have no idea this is happening. Not just Pokemon Go. All of it. Everything we do is tracked. Our data is sold a million times over.

Each robot employs multiple cameras to perceive its surrounding environment, matching those visual inputs against Niantic ...

The data collected by the AR games now consists of more than 30 billion images captured from different angles, times of day, ...

What started as a simple mobile game in 2016 is now helping machines navigate cities with precision. The millions of Pokémon Go players roaming cities and other places unknowingly created ...

Pokémon Go players unknowingly trained delivery robots for years after generating over 30 billion scans that Niantic has now repurposed to power Coco Robotics’ autonomous bots ...

Niantic Spatial, an AI spinout formed in 2025, has turned years of mobile gaming data into what it describes as a ...