This week, Niantic Spatial, part of the team behind Pokémon Go, announced a partnership with Coco Robotics, a company that makes short-distance delivery robots for food and groceries. Niantic trained that VPS model on more than 30 billion images captured by Pokémon Go users, and claims it will help robots operate in areas where GPS falls short. How Pokémon Go data could help robots find their wayNiantic and Coco are betting that Pokémon Go data will help delivery robots understand precisely where they are simply by looking at landmarks around them. Other delivery robots tested on college campuses have been known to get lost or struggle to cross streets. Once VPS-equipped delivery robots hit the streets, they will collect even more info that can be fed back into the model to bolster its accuracy further.