#PixelsAndPlace

How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

This is cool, and it’s VERY #PixelsAndPlace (throwback to my 2016 book).

Niantic’s using Pokémon Go’s crowdsourced city-scale imagery to help robots navigate with centimeter-level precision:
www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1...