In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the ...

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

NASA’s Perseverance Rover has taken a drive around Mars that was entirely mapped out by Generative AI with no input from humans.

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

Nasa used AI to analyse orbital images and plan rover drives, overcoming communication delays between Earth and Mars.

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

NASA’s Perseverance rover has achieved a major first by driving across Mars using routes planned by artificial intelligence rather than human operators. Credit: NASA. An AI just ...

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Vandi Verma (born Punjab, India) was the head of NASA who made the breakthrough of autonomous drives on the Perseverance rover on Mars in December 2025, the first autonomous drive that operates ...

"The fundamental elements of generative AI are showing a lot of promise in streamlining the pillars of autonomous navigation ...

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

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 ...