NASA used Anthropic's Claude for an experiment in plotting the rover's course, which the agency deemed successful.
"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.
Using vision-based generative AI instead of human planners, Perseverance rover successfully mapped and drove its own routes ...
The AI used the same data human planners employ to guide Perseverance through the Martian terrain. February marks the ...
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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NASA’s Perseverance just pulled off a Mars route no rover has ever tried
NASA’s Perseverance rover has just done something no Mars robot has attempted before: follow a route that was planned not by ...
For the first time the rover's journey was planned by artificial intelligence (AI), and not by human operators, who usually ...
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 accomplishment demonstrates real potential for future autonomous exploration and real-time decision making.
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For the first time, NASA’s Perseverance rover completes Mars drives planned by AI
NASA’s Perseverance rover has completed the first AI-planned drives on another world, marking a ...
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 ...
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