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Pokémon Go's AR data has been turned into centimeter-accurate navigation for delivery robots

Connecting the dots: Pokémon Go's global AR craze is now steering something far more prosaic than virtual Pikachu: real delivery robots trying to find the right doorway on a crowded city block. The same location data and street-level imagery that once anchored monsters to sidewalks and plazas have been repurposed by Niantic. Coco Robotics is now using that technology to guide its sidewalk bots through dense urban areas where GPS alone is too unreliable to keep them on course.

Full story By Skye Jacobs, March 15, 2026, 8:21 PM

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Gaming Industry

Pokémon Go developer Niantic to sell gaming division to Saudi-owned Scopely for $3.5 billion

Some Pokémon Go players say they will quit the game over the sale

By Rob Thubron, March 12, 2025, 12:39 PM

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Industry Gaming

Niantic lays off 8% of staff, cancels four projects as it struggles to recapture the success of Pokémon Go

Despite the company announcing a new NBA game

By Rob Thubron, June 30, 2022, 6:55 AM

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Niantic shuts down Pokémon Go trading on hearing one player got 100 'lucky' trades

Getting 100 lucky monsters in a day is supposed to be impossible

By Cal Jeffrey, January 21, 2022, 3:03 PM

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Police officers fired for ignoring robbery to play Pokémon Go denied appeal

Catch a criminal or a Snorlax?

By Rob Thubron, January 11, 2022, 5:17 AM

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Check out this Pokémon GO commercial directed by Star Wars' Rian Johnson

No lightsabers, sadly

By Rob Thubron, July 7, 2020, 6:13 AM

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Pokémon Go will let you raid with your friends while at home

Niantic wants you to catch Pokémon instead of viruses

By David Matthews, March 31, 2020, 10:48 AM

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Pokémon Go developers just made the game easier to play at home

As if trade shows and conferences weren't enough, now the coronavirus is changing your games

By Cal Jeffrey, March 13, 2020, 11:56 AM

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Pokémon Go has now been downloaded over one billion times

People still enjoy Niantic's game

By Rob Thubron, August 1, 2019, 6:55 AM

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YouTube bans several Pokémon Go channels over mistaken child abuse fears

They have now been reinstated

By Rob Thubron, February 19, 2019, 5:20 AM 7 comments

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Gaming Tech Culture

Pokémon Go creator seeks settlement in class-action trespass case

Residents want Pokéstops to Go away

By James Miller, February 16, 2019, 10:14 AM

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Pokémon Go creator Niantic is launching a competition to develop new AR games

With a prize pool of $1 million

By Isaiah Mayersen, December 23, 2018, 10:45 AM

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Blizzard reportedly developing a Pokémon Go-style Warcraft game

Will it be more popular than Diablo Immortal?

By Rob Thubron, November 22, 2018, 9:27 AM

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Pokémon Go earns $73 million in October, up 67% YoY

The mobile title is still going strong

By Rob Thubron, November 7, 2018, 8:37 AM

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Niantic showcased its 'occlusion' technology with a Pikachu demo

Occlusion allows 3D-animated objects to go behind real-world objects in augmented reality

By Cal Jeffrey, June 28, 2018, 4:19 PM

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Pokémon Go Fest returns to Chicago this summer

Hopefully things will go better this time around

By Shawn Knight, May 7, 2018, 3:48 PM

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Tech Culture Gaming

Niantic reaches $1.5 million+ settlement for disastrous Pokémon Go festival

Attendees' costs will be reimbursed

By Rob Thubron, April 2, 2018, 11:18 AM

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Software Gaming

Up to $7.3 billion in vehicle damages were caused by Pokemon Go during its first 148 days

By William Gayde, November 28, 2017, 12:04 AM 10 comments

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Russians exploited Pokémon Go in their efforts to influence US politics

Russian-backed group posed as a Black Lives Matter group to spread targeted messages

By William Gayde, October 12, 2017, 7:41 PM 27 comments

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Niantic faces lawsuit over disastrous Pokémon Go festival, postpones European events

Niantic probably thought things couldn't get any worse

By Rob Thubron, August 1, 2017, 7:30 AM

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Technical problems at Chicago Pokémon Go festival see Niantic offering refunds

The company has also given out $100 of in-game Pokécoins

By Rob Thubron, July 24, 2017, 11:15 AM

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Pokémon Go to get summer update, adding raids and gym reworks

World of Warcraft, meet Pokemon Go

By Cohen Coberly, June 19, 2017, 1:15 PM

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Tech Culture Gaming

Russian blogger given 3.5-year suspended jail sentence for playing Pokémon Go in church

The court found him guilty of inciting hatred, among other things

By Rob Thubron, May 11, 2017, 7:30 AM 33 comments

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Pokémon Go players walk close to 2,000 additional steps each day

By Shawn Knight, March 10, 2017, 2:00 PM 15 comments

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Pokémon Go and other mobile AR games now require a permit to use Milwaukee parks

In response to the mess left by players

By Rob Thubron, February 7, 2017, 11:00 AM 7 comments