"The fundamental elements of generative AI are showing a lot of promise in streamlining the pillars of autonomous navigation ...
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence.
NASA’s Perseverance rover has just done something no Mars robot has attempted before: follow a route that was planned not by ...
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.
The AI used the same data human planners employ to guide Perseverance through the Martian terrain. February marks the ...
This past December, Perseverance successfully completed a route through a section of the Jezero crater plotted by Anthropic's ...
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 ...
An Indian-origin roboticist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Verma played a central role in a major milestone in planetary exploration.
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 ...
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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 ...