US Edition‘Pokémon Go’ Players Unknowingly Contributed 30 Billion Images to Train Delivery Robots
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The publisher of the Pokémon Go app has collected billions of images created by users to drive an artificial intelligence model. This is not an anomaly but a business model embedded in a global systemThe American company Niantic has exploited some 30 billion photos taken by users of its Pokémon Go app over the last ten years to train pizza delivery robots. The information, revealed by the magazine MIT Technology Review, has been taken over by do…
‘Pokémon Go’ Players Unknowingly Contributed 30 Billion Images to Train Delivery Robots
by Lucas Nolan, Breitbart: Nearly a decade after Pokémon Go transformed the real world into an augmented reality playground, the data collected from hundreds of millions of players is being repurposed to help autonomous delivery robots navigate city streets. Popular Science reports that Niantic Spatial, part of the team behind the popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go, has announced […]
The revelations about the developer Niantic's use of his mobile game data to train delivery robots remind us that free access to new technologies is never annoyed.
What began as a global entertainment phenomenon with Pokémon Go today reveals a much more ambitious second life to become the backbone of one of the most sophisticated geospatial artificial intelligence systems in the world. Months after a decade, the game developed by Niantic returns to the center of the debate after it became known that the visual data generated by its users are being used to build hyper-precise maps of the real world. The pro…
On March 10, 2026, Niantic's IA subsidiary, Niantic Spatial, announced the signing of a partnership with Coco Robotics, to help the delivery robots of this company to better locate themselves in urban space. An agreement that may seem trivial but that says a lot about the issues ahead. Billions of data used Niantic, this is the company behind Pokémon Go, this virtual reality game that had made a carton at its launch in 2016 (and still counts in …
Pokémon Go Players Unknowingly Helped Build One Of The Most Advanced Mapping Systems
[Image: PickPik] Over the course of several years, millions of Pokémon Go players captured images and videos of real-world locations as they ran around trying to find Pokémon. Over time, this created a massive database of images, which is now being used to train robots. But while everyone was having fun, the augmented reality game was quietly collecting a massive amount of location-based data. This data included images and scans submitted by pla…
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