NASAs Perseverance Rover Completes First AI-PlannedDriveon Mars

Theteam for thesix-wheeled scientist useda vision-capableAItocreate a safe route over the Red Planets surfacewithout the input of human route planners. NASAsPerseveranceMarsroverhascompleted the firstdrives on another worldthat wereplannedbyartificial intelligence.Executed on Dec.8and10,andled by the agencys Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California,the demonstration used generative AI to create waypoints for Perseverance,a complex decision-making task typically performed manually by []