lab-automation
Anthropic opened a hardware standard that lets Claude run lab robots News
Anthropic released a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a common interface that let a Carnegie Mellon team wire four incompatible lab instruments into one agent-run workflow in about eight hours instead of the usual weeks.
SiLA 2 Tool
A free and open standard for laboratory instrument interoperability built on HTTP/2 and Protocol Buffers, with a multi-part specification and a public repository. The incumbent open standard in the space AI-native hardware interfaces are now entering.
Opentrons Python API Tool
The mature, vendor-supported way to script a liquid-handling robot today: a documented Python and HTTP interface for the Flex and OT-2 platforms, pipettes and modules. Worth knowing as the existing baseline that Anthropic's new hardware standard is being measured against.