Coco Robotics says its Coco 2 delivery robot can reach 13 mph on streets and bike lanes, using Niantic Spatial mapping to improve navigation in dense cities.

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

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Coco Robotics, which makes autonomous delivery robots, announced on Tuesday that it’s partnering with Niantic Spatial, the AI spinoff of the Pokémon Go developer. Niantic’s geospatial AI model, which ...

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