""Without spatial intelligence, your robot really can't do what you want it to do. Your Roomba is operating just in your house. But as we're about to start operating at city scale, we need these big, large-scale, shared, accurate representations of the world.""
""The problem with the Google approach, having lived it, is: You send all the cars out, capture all the streets. Then a new road gets built. Everything changes. You're always behind. Your data is always stale. It's always old. And it's very capital-intensive.""
""You want it to be a living map, not some static reconstruction.""
Niantic is launching the Scaniverse platform to create a large-scale, accurate 3D map for robots. This platform allows users to capture data using various devices, enabling centimeter-level navigation. John Hanke emphasizes the need for living maps, contrasting this with traditional mapping methods that quickly become outdated. Niantic's approach, developed during the creation of Pokémon Go, focuses on a distributed mapping system rather than capital-intensive methods that rely on cars capturing streets.
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