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| Date | Section | Report | Evidence |
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| Research | Anthropic opens a Model Hardware Standard research preview: agents begin operating real instruments#294511 17 min read | 0 sources |
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On 27 August 2026, MHS—started with HHMI Janelia—entered a limited preview. A standard driver, read/write primitives, and device-declared safety bounds let model-agnostic agents discover and operate lab and factory hardware. The numbers come from Genentech, UW, CMU, QuEra, Tetsuwan, and Universal Robots; so do the limits.
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