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 Model Hardware Standard (MHS) works with any AI model, not just Claude, but for now only a handful of companies can access the research preview.

The Model Hardware Standard is initially available in a research preview, but Anthropic plans to open source it in the future.