NASA Let AI Drive a Rover on Mars—and It Somehow Survived

The AI used the same data human planners employ to guide Perseverance through the Martian terrain. February marks the ...
Earth.com

For the first time on Mars, a rover planned its own drive

Using vision-based generative AI instead of human planners, Perseverance rover successfully mapped and drove its own routes ...
The Robot Report

NASA’s Perseverance Rover completes its first AI-planned drive

During the demonstration, NASA engineers used vision-language models, or VLMs, to create waypoints on Mars for Perseverance.

Perseverance rover completes first AI-planned drive on Mars

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has completed the first drives on another world that were planned by artificial intelligence.
Yahoo

JPL has 3rd round of layoffs, lets go of about 550 employees

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena laid off about 550 employees, or 11% of its total staff, on Tuesday. The layoff spanned technical, business and support areas. This is the third round of ...
East Bay Times

NASA’s JPL to cut 325 positions amid budget tightening

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced Tuesday, Nov. 12, its second major round of layoff in nine months, cutting more than 300 jobs—approximately 5% of its workforce—to address budgetary ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: If NASA’s JPL mission is shelved, we’ll lose invaluable scientific information

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. To the editor: As a member of the Mars Sample Return team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I think your ...