Pokémon Go players built a 30-billion-photo map that’s now training robots to deliver your pizza

How Niantic Spatial is turning a decade of 30 billion crowdsourced photos and data into the most precise urban navigation system delivery robots ever had.
EuropaWire

Visual Components Launches Version 5.0 with Faster Manufacturing Simulation and Advanced Robot Programming

Visual Components has launched Visual Components 5.0, a major update to its 3D manufacturing simulation and robot offline programming software platform. The new version introduces faster simulation ...
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North Vancouver man making award-winning maps out of his basement

A North Vancouver man has spent years mastering map making. Now, he’s creating large scale maps and winning awards for his work. Federal departments to shed 12,000 full-time jobs Up to 15 cm possible ...
AOL

Chilling doomsday nuclear map reveals how fast US citizens would die from explosion

A chilling map simulation created by top scientists reveals how residents across North America could be impacted by nuclear fallout. Researchers at the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the ...
IEEE

AAV Visual Navigation in the Large-Scale Outdoor Environment: A Semantic-Map-Based Cognitive Escape Reinforcement Learning Method

Abstract: The rapid development of the autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) technology has significantly facilitated its application in the burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. AAV visual ...