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

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 rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...

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

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

"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 completed its first AI-planned drives on Mars using vision-language models to create safe waypoints during surface operations in Jezero Crater.

The excursion across rugged Martian terrain constituted the first time NASA has used an AI model to determine a path for its ...

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

Born and partly brought up Punjab's Halwara, Vandana 'Vandi' Verma is the child of an Indian Air Force (IAF) pilot, and one of the few people of the planet who is qualified to drive a vehicle on Mars.

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

NASA has decided to bring the Crew-11 astronauts home a month earlier than originally planned due to a "medical concern" with ...