In December, NASA took another small, incremental step towards autonomous surface rovers. In a demonstration, the ...

Sending a rover into space to explore other celestial bodies comes with a dizzying array of challenges, and one of the most complex is ensuring the vehicle doesn't break down out there. To largely ...

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 ...

Using high-resolution imagery from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the AI analyzed the bedrock and boulder fields. It ...

NASA uses a vision-language model (VLM) called Claude for the first time to plan two separate drives on Mars for the ...

In the vast expanse of space exploration, robotic rovers have become our proxy explorers, navigating alien terrains and collecting invaluable data. Yet, despite their advanced designs and capabilities ...

Vandi Verma, an Indian-origin roboticist, led NASA's first AI-planned rover drives on Mars in 2025, marking a significant ...

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Space exploration is perhaps the only kind of human activity where failure is not only tolerated but probably recommended. Through explosions on the launch pad, failed lift-offs, or botched landings, ...

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

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 ...