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AI Plans the Routes for a Mars Rover for the First Time, They Work Like a Charm

NASA uses a vision-language model (VLM) called Claude for the first time to plan two separate drives on Mars for the ...
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For the first time on Mars, a rover planned its own drive

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

NASA Let AI Drive a Rover on Mars—and It Somehow Survived

The AI used the same data human planners employ to guide Perseverance through the Martian terrain. February marks the ...
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NASA Perseverance Rover Completes Historic Mars Drive Using Routes Planned by AI

Using high-resolution imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the AI analyzed the bedrock and boulder fields. It ...
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Meet the orbiters that help rovers on Mars talk to Earth

CNN — While robotic rovers may explore the surface of Mars on behalf of humans who can't safely land there yet, they aren't alone. A fleet of orbiters circling the planet act as dual-purpose ...
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Was Built Like a Tank, To Roam Mars Until at Least 2031

Like most other rovers sent to alien worlds, the Perseverance was built to last. Although it was technically designed to conduct its core mission – finding signs of ancient life – in one Martian year ...
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NASA’s Curiosity rover captures a wonderfully clear Mars panorama

NASA has just shared one of its most impressive Mars panoramas to date. Captured by its trusty Curiosity rover, the panorama (below) of the Martian landscape comprises 44 images taken by the rover’s ...