With over 30 billion images logged, Pokemon Go is using players' activity to train its spinout AI company to help GPS pinpointing: "I'm very focused on trying to re-create the real world"

Pokemon Go.

Pokemon Go players are helping delivery robots reach consumers' doors, as Niantic Spatial says it's using images captured on the app to improve location pinpointing in partnership with companies like Coco Robotics.

Although Pokemon Go makes it clear in-game that it's collecting AR mapping data, with a notification prompting players to acknowledge that they'll help add to this pool for any given location, AI company Niantic Spatial – a spinout from developer and publisher Niantic – is apparently tapping into this collection now to… help delivery robots?

Speaking with MIT Technology Review, CTO Brian McClendon reveals as much.