Perseverance rover completes landmark AI guided trek across Jezero rim
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 02, 2026
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first AI planned drives ever carried out on another planet, using a vision capable generative AI system to map out safe routes across the rim of Jezero Crater without human route planners intervening in the usual way.
The demonstration, run on Dec 8 and Dec 10, 2025, used generative AI to create waypoints for the six wheeled rover, taking ov
Published by SpaceDaily on 02/03/2026
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Atlas V 541 | Mars 2020 (Perseverance rover & Ingenuity helicopter)
