"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 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.

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

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 ...

NASA's Perseverance used its navigation cameras to capture its drive along the rim of Jezero Crater on Dec. 10, 2025. The ...

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

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 ...

The team for the six-wheeled scientist used a vision-capable AI to create a safe route over the Red Planet’s surface without ...