"The fundamental elements of generative AI are showing a lot of promise in streamlining the pillars of autonomous navigation for off-planet driving." ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just done something no Mars robot has attempted before: follow a route that was planned not by ...

The AI used the same data human planners employ to guide Perseverance through the Martian terrain. February marks the ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence.

This past December, Perseverance successfully completed a route through a section of the Jezero crater plotted by Anthropic's ...

For the first time the rover's journey was planned by artificial intelligence (AI), and not by human operators, who usually ...

Using vision-based generative AI instead of human planners, Perseverance rover successfully mapped and drove its own routes ...

NASA quietly let a Mars rover think for itself in December 2025. Behind this shift stands Vandi Verma, whose work hints at how future missions may explore worlds alone.

Nearly 14 years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars for a mission to explore the red planet and discover if it had an ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has completed the first AI-planned drives on another world, marking a ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just made history by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence instead of human operators. A vision-capable AI analyzed the same images and ...

During the demonstration, NASA engineers used vision-language models, or VLMs, to create waypoints on Mars for Perseverance.