NASA’s Perseverance Rover Completes the First AI-Planned Drive on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover completes the first AI-planned drive on Mars

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 terrain data normally used by rover planners, identified hazards like rocks and sand ripples, and charted a safe path across the Martian surface. After extensive testing in a virtual replica of the rover, Perseverance successfully followed the AI-genera…

Mars Rover Drives with the Help of Anthropic AI

AI is everywhere these days—even on Mars. Engineers at JPL announced Friday that they had successfully used Anthropic’s AI model, called Claude, to map a 450-meter Martian path for NASA’s Perseverance rover. The demonstration in December has big implications for the future of deep space missions. Engineers estimate that using Claude to map Martian journeys in the future will cut route-planning time in half. The technology could increase the viab…

Claude Demonstrates AI Autonomy In Space, Paving The Way For Future Lunar And Deep-Space Missions

AI research and safety company Anthropic has revealed that NASA’s Perseverance rover recently completed the first AI-planned drive on another planet, with Anthropic’s Claude helping to map a 400-meter route across the Martian surface that the rover navigated successfully in December.  Perseverance, a car-sized robot equipped with cameras and scientific instruments, has been exploring Mars since February 2021, analyzing the geology and climate of…

Meet Vandi Verma: Indian-origin NASA scientist behind the first-ever AI-planned rover drive on Mars

Vandi Verma has emerged as one of the key figures behind a landmark moment in planetary exploration. On December 8 and 10, 2025, NASA’s Perseverance successfully completed the first-ever drives on Mars whose routes were planned by artificial intelligence rather than by human rover drivers. The…