Anthropic standard lets AI agents run lab and factory hardware
Anthropic has opened a research preview of its Model Hardware Standard, letting AI agents operate lab and factory hardware.
The specification, called MHS, is going first to a small group of scientific research labs and advanced manufacturers, not to the public. Anthropic says the standard lets an AI agent run several lab instruments in parallel.
Alek Kemeny, of Anthropic’s Beneficial Deployments team, began the MHS project with Arco Bast, a postdoctoral scientist at HHMI Janelia. Bast was running brain-imaging experiments on a rig that combined lasers and motorised focusers, and the setup also used cameras from different vendors with no shared interface.
Bast built a shared memory dictionary that let the instruments exchange data at memory speed. Kemeny then worked with him to connect AI models to that interface, a design that now underpins the MHS standard.
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