NASA’s Perseverance rover has just done something no Mars robot has attempted before: follow a route that was planned not by ...

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

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

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

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 has quietly crossed a new frontier in human–machine collaboration, handing a critical piece of Mars navigation to a ...

Using high-resolution imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the AI analyzed the bedrock and boulder fields. It processed the same data humans use, but it worked faster, stringing together ...

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

NASA has sent five robotic vehicles to Mars. Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity, and Perseverance. Look back at the missions. (NASA/AFP via Getty Images) Martian mudstones contain features that ...

Nearly 14 years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars for a mission to explore the red planet and discover if it had an ...

On January 25, 2004, NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars! This was the second of NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers to ...

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 ...