TLDR Tech / Hardware
Anthropic previews a universal driver letting Claude control any lab or factory hardware
Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared driver spec that lets AI agents discover and operate lab and manufacturing instruments, microscopes, liquid handlers, robotic arms, and laser systems through a single interface instead of the bespoke, vendor-specific integrations that normally take weeks or months to build. The driver uses simple read/write primitives any device can implement, plus natural-language tags that capture physical characteristics (like a robot arm's weight) that used to live only in paper manuals or an engineer's head, giving the agent everything it needs.
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