# Machine Perception

A computing discipline concerned with enabling embodied devices to perceive, comprehend, and reason about their surroundings using sensing and scene-understanding algorithms.

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## Teaching AI to read a map

DevFeed: [Teaching AI to read a map](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/teaching-ai-to-read-a-map-6884.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://research.google/blog/teaching-ai-to-read-a-map/>)

Published: 2026-02-17T21:37:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The latest research from Google](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-latest-research-from-google.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Machine Perception](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-perception.md>), [Synthetic Data Generation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/synthetic-data-generation.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/multimodal.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [AI Models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-models.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Language models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/language-models.md>), [large-language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/large-language-models.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-models.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [gemini](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gemini.md>), [generation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/generation.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [images](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/images.md>), [language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/language-models.md>), [large-language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/large-language-models.md>), [machine-perception](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/machine-perception.md>), [multimodal](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/multimodal.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [open-source-models-datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source-models-datasets.md>), [synthetic-data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/synthetic-data.md>), [synthetic-data-generation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/synthetic-data-generation.md>)

### AI overview

Google Research presents MapTrace, a task, dataset, and synthetic data generation pipeline for teaching multimodal large language models to trace valid routes on maps. The work addresses models' difficulty with spatial, geometric, and topological reasoning and releases 2 million generated question-answer pairs using Gemini 2.5 Pro and Imagen-4 Models.

### Source excerpt

Machine Perception