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

NASA used Anthropic's Claude for an experiment in plotting the rover's course, which the agency deemed successful.

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

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

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

The Perseverance Mars rover completed the first drives on another world planned by AI on December 8 and 10.

NASA uses a vision-language model (VLM) called Claude for the first time to plan two separate drives on Mars for the ...

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

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

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.

The accomplishment demonstrates real potential for future autonomous exploration and real-time decision making.

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 ...