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

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 ...

NASA Used AI to Drive Its Perseverance Mars Rover for the First Time ...

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

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first artificial intelligence-planned drives on another planet.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...