"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 ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence. Executed on Dec. 8 and 10, and led by the agency's Jet Propulsion ...

Using high-resolution imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the AI analyzed the bedrock and boulder fields. It processed the same data humans use, but it worked faster, stringing together ...

Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence model has successfully planned a navigation route on Mars for NASA’s Perseverance ...

Vandi Verma, an Indian-origin roboticist, led NASA's first artificial intelligence-planned rover drives on Mars in December 2025.

An Indian-origin roboticist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Verma played a central role in a major milestone in planetary exploration.

Vandi Verma, an Indian-origin roboticist, led NASA's first AI-planned rover drives on Mars in 2025, marking a significant ...

In the age where AI is more than just a mere buzzword but a reflection of the immediate and distant future, NASA, arguably one of the world's biggest centres of human excellence and innovation, has ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA's Perseverance mission spotted a possible large meteorite, called Phippsaksla, in September ...

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.