How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
About this episode
The episode discusses how Niantic's AI spinout is using crowdsourced images to train a new world model for delivery robots.
Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players. This story was written by Will Douglas Heaven and narrated by Noa - newsoveraudio.com
People in this episode
Host: Noa
Topics covered
- Pokémon Go
- delivery robots
- AI
- urban landmarks
- crowdsourcing
Keywords
- Pokémon Go
- delivery robots
- AI
- urban landmarks
- crowdsourced images
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Organizations: Niantic, newsoveraudio.com
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