NASA repurposes Mars Helicopter’s ancient Snapdragon SoC to help Perseverance rover navigate

Upgrade allows robot to travel ‘potentially unlimited distances’ without phoning home for help NASA has revealed it repurposed the processor the Perseverance rover used to communicate with the ...
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NASA let AI drive the Perseverance rover

Across two days, the rover drove 456 meters without human control ...
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NASA’s Perseverance just pulled off a Mars route no rover has ever tried

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just done something no Mars robot has attempted before: follow a route that was planned not by human drivers on Earth, but by an artificial intelligence model. Instead of ...