Model Hardware Standard (research preview)
The Model Hardware Standard is a shared driver spec letting AI agents operate lab and factory instruments over MCP; research preview opens to select labs.
Developed with HHMI Janelia. Devices expose simple read/write primitives and discover each other in a standard format, which cuts integration from weeks to hours. Agents can run microscopes, liquid handlers and robotic arms in parallel and recover from hardware errors. Model-agnostic, and Anthropic plans to open-source it.
- Date
- Thursday, 27 August 2026
- Lab
- Anthropic
- Kind
- infra
- Access
- research preview
Anthropic is seeking partners to build safety evaluations for AI operating physical devices; no public benchmark results yet.
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