During the demonstration, NASA engineers used vision-language models, or VLMs, to create waypoints on Mars for Perseverance.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Vandi Verma, an Indian-origin roboticist, led NASA's first artificial intelligence-planned rover drives on Mars in December 2025.

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

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 drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has successfully completed its first drives on Mars entirely planned by artificial intelligence, ...

AI is coming for our jobs, and now we can add "Mars Rover Driver" to that list. Last month, the Perseverance rover successfully drove not one, but two trips across the Martian sur ...

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