Imagine a factory where all the equipment is powered by AI, where robotic arms and assembly lines can “communicate” with their own shared language. Or picture a science lab, where microscopes can autonomously search for a certain type of molecule—all hours of the day, no humans necessary.
That’s the idea behind Anthropic new Model Hardware Standard (MHS), which the company released as a research preview on Thursday. MHS, which marks Anthropic’s first foray into so-called physical AI, is essentially a framework for connecting advanced large language models (LLMs) like Anthropic’s Claude with physical objects, from manufacturing equipment to microscopes.
