AI agents get a universal driver for lab robots and factory gear
Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a model-agnostic spec that turns any programmable device into something an agent can read and write: think "get temperature," "set temperature," from microscopes to robotic arms. It compresses what normally takes weeks of bespoke integration work into hours. The catch: round-the-clock autonomous experiments running without a human in the loop. That's why Anthropic is building safety evaluations with early partners before open-sourcing it.