NASA Let AI Drive a Rover on Mars—and It Somehow Survived

The AI used the same data human planners employ to guide Perseverance through the Martian terrain. February marks the ...
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NASA Perseverance Rover Completes Historic Mars Drive Using Routes Planned by AI

Using high-resolution imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the AI analyzed the bedrock and boulder fields. It ...
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover completes its 1st drive planned by AI

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

Who Is Vandi Verma, Indian-origin woman behind NASA’s first ai-planned drive on Mars

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.
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NASA's Perseverance conducts AI-assisted drives during Mars surface operations

NASA’s Perseverance rover completed its first AI-planned drives on Mars using vision-language models to create safe waypoints during surface operations in Jezero Crater.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover completes the first AI-planned drive on Mars

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 ...