US EditionHow Pokémon Go Was Used To Create The Largest Real-World Robotics Perception Dataset In History
Niantic Spatial leverages 30 billion images from AR games to enable delivery robots to locate precise drop-off points in GPS-challenged dense urban areas.
- Yesterday, Niantic Spatial announced a commercial rollout of its visual positioning system in a first large-scale deployment with Coco Robotics, which uses it to guide sidewalk delivery robots through dense urban areas where GPS is unreliable.
- Niantic Spatial aggregated gameplay data from Pokémon Go and Ingress to build its training set, which includes over 30 billion images paired with phone metadata from player hot spots.
- Niantic Spatial's VPS uses camera frames and map context to localize devices, and the company says its model infers exact location and orientation within several centimeters.
- Coco's robots travel at about five miles per hour and carry loads from pizzas to grocery bags, aiming to meet promised pickup and drop-off times in operating cities.
- Players long suspected their gameplay maps were being sold, and Niantic aims to maintain a global 'living map' via an API, raising critics' privacy concerns as delivery robots use this data.
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An agreement between Niantic and the company of Coco Robotics delivery robots reveals one of the possible uses of the gigantic database of the game. More information: Pokémon Go but with the NBA: this is the new game for your mobile that wants to make you walk
The technology that thousands of people used to search for virtual creatures now drives delivery robots on real streets.Niantic Spatial announced that its system will allow Coco Robotics robots to move accurately around urban areas thanks to data generated by Pokémon Go players.The platform combines visual positioning (VPS) and artificial spatial intelligence.This technology allows robots to target even in places where GPS loses precision.The pr…
The map, created by the American company Niantic Spatial, is already used by pizza delivery robots.
The mobile game became a data treasure with the help of which operator Niantic has built a virtual world model
Millions of users have collected high-precision geodata during the digital monster hunt over ten years. Now, the developer Niantic uses these images to navigate delivery robots through inner cities.
Pokémon GO Players Unknowingly Helped Build a 30 Billion AR Image Map of the World
In 2016, Niantic launched Pokémon GO, an augmented reality (AR) game that took the world by storm. Now, 10 years later, spin-off company Niantic Spatial is using all the visual data gathered by players to build a massive geospatial model that can power robots and AI.
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