If you played Pokémon Go, there's a chance you helped with the development of training robots and AI.

Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

The early augmented reality smartphone app prompted hundreds of millions of players to wander into parks, parking lots, and even dimly lit alleyways, peering through their phone cameras in search of ...

Pokemon Go players have been unwittingly training robots - A 30-billion-image dataset built by players over the last decade is now being used to train an AI navigation system ...

The creator of augmented reality hit Pokemon GO, Niantic, reveals that player data has been used to help train delivery robots.