Anthropic tests new way for Claude to work with robots and scientific lab tools

Anthropic released its Model Hardware Standard (MHS) under a research preview, enabling AI assistants like Claude to interact with robots and scientific and manufacturing hardware. The standard stores hardware operational information, such as safety limits for robot arm speed and angles, allowing developers to test and implement safeguards before broad deployment.

Anthropic has announced a new software standard that will allow artificial intelligence assistants such as Claude to work better with robots and science and manufacturing hardware. The AI startup is releasing its Model Hardware Standard, or MHS, under a research preview, so developers in the scientific, robotics and manufacturing fields can test how Claude interacts with the physical world and build in necessary safeguards before releasing it broadly. Essentially, MHS stores information for AI assistants to understand how a piece of hardware works, without having to refer to paper manuals or tacit knowledge that only resides with a few experts. For example, a factory robot arm vendor could specify in an MHS how AI can manipulate a heavy arm safely by limiting the speed or angles with which it moves.