Over the course of ten years, the game Pokémon GO collected more than 30 billion images of the outside world through its players enabling the creation of the world's most accurate map ...using this data for robot training and military use.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1vjkhvn/over_the_course_of_ten_years_the_game_pok%C3%A9mon_go/
How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world | MIT
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/
Pokémon Go players built a 30-billion-photo map that's now training robots to deliver your pizza
https://fortune.com/2026/03/19/pokemon-go-30-billion-photos-map-coco-robots/