Catching them all hasn’t been as innocent as throwing a poke ball at a Bulbasaur.
The game uses augmented reality and tracks player movements in the world while they track Pokémon.
According to MIT Technology Review, the 500 million people who installed the app in 60 days will now help Niantic Spatial, an AI company that Niantic began in May last year.
Niantic Spatial is using collected visual data to build a work model to help robots navigate with greater precision in places where GPS is unreliable.
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Niantic Spatial teamed up with Coco Robotics, a startup that deploys last-mile delivery robots in several cities across the US and Europe.
