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Anthropic wants to do for physical hardware what its Model Context Protocol did for software

Anthropic's new Model Hardware Standard (MHS) gives AI agents a unified interface to physical devices such as robotic arms and lab instruments, cutting integration time from weeks to hours in early tests. However, Claude sometimes failed to grasp physical cause and effect, so human oversight remains essential for now.

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Anthropic wants to do for physical hardware what its Model Context Protocol did for software
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By Tomislav BezmalinovićSource:

The Decoder Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS) gives AI agents a unified interface to physical devices like robotic arms and lab instruments. In early tests, integration time dropped from weeks to hours. But Claude sometimes failed to grasp physical cause and effect, so human oversight remains essential for now.

The article Anthropic wants to do for physical hardware what its Model Context Protocol did for software appeared first on The Decoder.

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