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

The excursion across rugged Martian terrain constituted the first time NASA has used an AI model to determine a path for its Perseverance Rover.

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.

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

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

The findings come in the background of data obtained by NASA’s Perseverance rover that revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks, altered by subsurface water in a Martian crater that ...

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

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are breathing new life into the scientific ...

Mars Ingenuity helicopter's 59th flight was captured by the Perseverance rover's Left Mastcam-Z camera. Credit: Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

'When thousands of innocent people are completely killed it hurts me!' ...