I Tried DoorDash’s Tasks App and Saw the Bleak Future of AI Gig Work

I recorded videos of myself doing laundry, scrambling eggs, and walking around the park in DoorDash’s new Tasks app, where ...

‘You were the product the whole time’: Pokémon Go fans react to quietly being used to help robots deliver pizza

Niantic Spatial, a spinout of the game maker behind the mobile phenomenon, is putting all that AR creature-catching data to interesting use. Walking down the street to scavenge for creatures like ...

Pokémon Go's AR data has been turned into centimeter-accurate navigation for delivery robots

Niantic Spatial, an AI spinout formed in 2025, has turned years of mobile gaming data into what it describes as a ...

Your Pokémon Go data has helped Niantic AI power urban delivery robots

If you played Pokémon Go, there's a chance you helped with the development of training robots and AI.
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Pokémon Go Players Helped Map the World—Now That Data Is Training Delivery Robots

Niantic’s spatial AI, built partly from optional scans submitted through its AR games, is now helping delivery robots ...

Pokémon Go players built a 30-billion-photo map that’s now training robots to deliver your pizza

How Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of 30 billion crowdsourced photos and data into the most precise urban navigation ...