Claude on Mars: Anthropic's Frontier Model Just Planned a Real Drive for NASA's Perseverance Rover - May 5, 2026

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Claude on Mars: Anthropic's Frontier Model Just Planned a Real Drive for NASA's Perseverance Rover - May 5, 2026 Anthropic's Claude wrote the actual command file for two NASA Perseverance rover drives across 455.9 meters of Jezero Crater, generalizing its coding skills into a niche XML dialect called Rover Markup Language. We unpack the engineering choreography behind the first AI planned drives in interplanetary history, the simulation safety stack that vetted them, and what this template means for Mars Sample Return, lunar operations, and high stakes agentic deployments back on Earth. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The...