Hundreds of millions of Pokemon Go players have unknowingly helped create an AI navigation system that will now be used by delivery robots. The augmented reality smartphone game, which uses a phone’s ...

Pikachus at every street corner. Leveling up before getting into the gym. “Pokémon Go to the polls.” You remember this era well: Pokémon Go became a frenzy, with hundreds of millions taking to the ...

Data generated by millions of Pokemon Go players is now powering Niantic's geospatial AI models that help autonomous robots ...

We've known for a while that the real reason Pokemon Go players were tasked with capturing footage of the real world was so it could be mapped, and not so that it could fill its AR version with more ...

Players chasing down a rare Snorlax or trying to pin a Pikachu to their pavement in Pokémon Go may have been doing more than just "catching them all" - they’ve also been unknowingly helping train real ...

Former Pokémon Go owner Niantic announced last week that it will be using the data generated by millions of users to assist AI delivery bots. Whether all those players explicitly consented or not, the ...

Pokémon Go creator Niantic Spatial reportedly used 30 billion images crowdsourced from players to build a map that will train ...

Offworld is a new iOS (coming soon to Android) game that is, as the headline suggests, a lot like the battling side of Pokémon. Only, you’re using giant killer robots instead of small cute animals. It ...