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.

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

Will an association with that game everyone played a little bit in 2016 help keep the bots from getting lost and beat up?

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