MAROKO133 Hot ai: For the first time, NASA’s Perseverance rover completes Mars drives plan

📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: For the first time, NASA’s Perseverance rover completes M

NASA’s Perseverance rover has completed the first AI-planned drives on another world, marking a milestone in autonomous space exploration.

In early December, the six-wheeled robot followed routes generated by artificial intelligence rather than human planners, navigating Mars using machine-driven decision-making for the first time in mission history.

The demonstration took place on Dec. 8 and Dec. 10 and was led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

Engineers used generative AI to create waypoints for Perseverance, a task traditionally handled by experienced rover drivers on Earth.

The rover safely executed both drives without human-designed routes, proving that AI can plan complex surface navigation on another planet.

“This demonstration shows how far our capabilities have advanced and broadens how we will explore other worlds,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.

“Autonomous technologies like this can help missions to operate more efficiently, respond to challenging terrain, and increase science return as distance from Earth grows. It’s a strong example of teams applying new technology carefully and responsibly in real operations.”

The JPL team relied on vision-language models, a form of generative AI that can interpret images and text together.

The system analyzed the same surface data that human planners normally use.

This included rover imagery, terrain maps, and hazard information. Based on that data, the AI generated a continuous driving path with safe waypoints.

The project ran from JPL’s Rover Operations Center in collaboration with Anthropic, which provided its Claude AI models.

The AI assessed features such as exposed bedrock, sand ripples, steep slopes, and boulder fields. It then selected a route that avoided hazards while keeping the rover on course.

For Perseverance’s 1,707th Martian day, or sol, the rover drove 689 feet, or 210 meters. Two sols later, it completed a second AI-planned drive of 807 feet, or 246 meters.

Both traverses matched expectations and stayed within operational safety limits.

Testing before Mars commands

Despite the autonomy, engineers did not send AI commands directly to Mars. The team first verified every instruction using JPL’s digital twin of Perseverance.

This virtual replica checked more than 500,000 telemetry variables to confirm compatibility with the rover’s flight software. Only after passing those tests did engineers uplink the commands.

Mars sits about 140 million miles from Earth on average, creating long communication delays. Because real-time control is impossible, rover teams usually plan routes in advance, step by step.

AI-driven planning could reduce that workload and speed up daily operations.

“The fundamental elements of generative AI are showing a lot of promise in streamlining the pillars of autonomous navigation for off-planet driving,” said Vandi Verma, a space roboticist at JPL and a Perseverance engineer.

“We are moving towards a day where generative AI and other smart tools will help our surface rovers handle kilometer-scale drives while minimizing operator workload.”

NASA views this test as groundwork for future exploration. AI-assisted navigation could support longer rover drives and help identify scientifically interesting targets faster.

It may also play a role in future robotic and human missions beyond Mars.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com

📌 MAROKO133 Breaking ai: Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Askin

Somehow, Elon Musk’s infamous outburst accusing Donald Trump of being in the Epstein files has managed to age both incredibly well and incredibly poorly.

Trump, as you’re probably well aware by now, has featured quite a bit in the DOJ’s ongoing releases of documents from its investigation into the deceased sex criminal and billionaire financier.

But now so does Musk, after the government released a new batch of millions of more files on Friday. They show that Musk had more than a few email exchanges with Epstein, including one correspondence where he asks to visit the convicted sex trafficker’s notorious island, where he allegedly brought dozens of underage girls to be abused.

“Will be in the BVI/St Bart’s area over the holidays,” Musk wrote in an email sent to Epstein in December 2013, referring to the region near Epstein’s Caribbean island. “Is there a good time to visit?”

“Anytime I will be there 28-7th,” Epstein responded the same day, with his characteristically thick layer of typographic errors.

“I will send heli for you,” he later added.

“Thanks,” Musk said.

The exchanges — which took place years after Epstein was first convicted of sex crimes against underage girls in 2008 — clearly contradict Musk’s claims about his relationship with Epstein in the past, which he has spent years downplaying. In 2019, he told Vanity Fair that he visited Epstein’s Manhattan house only on a single occasion, and just for half an hour. And the way he tells it, that was that. “He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined,” Musk insisted.

Musk has firmly held that line ever since. For that matter, so has his chatbot Grok. But according to the newly released emails, Musk wasn’t declining Epstein’s invitations: he was inviting himself over.

Later that December, Epstein’s personal assistant Lesley Groff relayed a message from one billionaire to another. “Just a reminder Elon Musk was asking about coming to your island on Jan. 2…. ” she wrote.

Their plans apparently fell apart. On December 30, a dejected Epstein emailed Elon saying he couldn’t be at the island with him because of his busy schedule.

“I was really looking forward to finally spending some time together with just fun as the agenda,” Epstein wrote. “so i am very disappointed. Hopefully we can schedule another time in the near future.”

Even more damningly in December 2012, Musk sent an email practically begging Epstein for an invitation to some debauchery.

“Do you have any parties planned? I’ve been working to the edge of sanity this year and so, once my kids head home after Christmas, I really want to hit the party scene in St Barts or elsewhere and let loose,” Musk wrote. He added that “a peaceful island experience is the opposite of what I’m looking for.”

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Those were far from the only time the pair made plans. In April 2013, Epstein asked Musk if he’d be around to have “dinner with woody allen and crowd at my house,” referring to the influential filmmaker and actor who’s also been accused of child sex abuse. Musk replied that he “might be in town.”

Epstein also invited Musk to his island in September 2012, recommending he “bring your friend or friends.”

“Sounds good,” Musk wrote, “I will try to make it.”

And at least one email suggests the two had actually gotten together at one point. In September 2014, Epstein asked Elon, “are=you planning to do st barth again for xmas?” (St. Barth is Saint Barthélemy, where Musk has reportedly vacationed in the past.)

In December 2014, a Google Calendar alert titled “ELON MUSK TO ISLAND DEC. 6TH” appeared in the inbox of Groff, Epstein’s assistant.

Musk didn’t reply to an email asking about the correspondence.

The documents alone won’t tell us how many of these get-togethers with Epstein materialized. But the mountain of exchanges make it clear that Musk’s angle that he barely knew or talked to the guy was a lie, which warrants further scrutiny into their ties. And while none of them rise to the level of being incriminating, they are awfully suspicious.

In February 2013, Groff sent Musk’s executive assistant, Mary Beth Brown, an email about some travel-related logistics.

“I have now sent you a copy of all 3 girls passports (sorry [redacted] is upside down!),” she wrote. “Jeffrey will have his ID with him…”

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