MIT Technology Review Narrated

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

MIT Technology Review Narrated

Show Notes

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

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