US EditionNASA Taps Claude to Conjure Mars Rover's Travel Plan
Anthropic's Claude AI planned approximately 400 meters of rover routes on Mars, cutting planning time in half and demonstrating safe navigation across challenging terrain.
- From Dec. 8 and Dec. 10, 2025, Perseverance executed routes planned by Anthropic's Claude, driving about 400 meters on Jezero Crater, as confirmed by JPL.
- Using HiRISE orbital imagery and terrain-slope data, JPL researchers tested Claude to generate safe waypoints, aiming to reduce manual route pre-planning time.
- NASA first fed Claude Code with years of rover data; Claude produced Rover Markup Language outputs, and JPL's digital twin simulator verified over 500,000 telemetry variables, with Anthropic saying `When the JPL engineers reviewed Claude's plans, they found that only minor changes were needed`.
- NASA's annotated imagery shows the AI-planned and actual Dec. 10 routes differ slightly, presumably due to the AutoNav system's real-time adjustments, marking the first drives planned by a large language model.
- NASA says autonomous AI could enable kilometer-scale drives, and engineers estimate Claude can halve route-planning time, allowing more drives and increased scientific data collection.
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