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How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world

Podcast: MIT Technology Review Narrated
Published: Mar 25, 2026
Duration seconds: 646
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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