‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images

In other words, all that time users spent wandering around playing #Pokémon Go will now help determine how well courier #robots can deliver your take out.

It’s a stark example of how #crowdsourced #data, seemingly collected for one purpose, can be quietly repurposed years later for something quite different.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/pokemon-go-delivery-robots-crowdsourcing/

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‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots

The massive crowdsourcing effort could use real-world to help robots deliver pizza.

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