Agentic AI · Anthropic · Claude · Ars Technica
Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
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For all the interest in and uptake of agentic AI systems over the past year or so, the world of automated AI has thus far been primarily limited to text, images, code, and other data and actions that take place inside a computer.
Key facts
- In a video posted alongside the announcement, Anthropic Technical Staffer Alek Kemeny says the MHS effort was inspired by observing neuroscientist Arco Bast work through an experiment on memory
- For now, Anthropic says it is working with “a first group of scientific research labs and advanced manufacturers” during an MHS preview period, including Amazon Web Services ( Strands Robots )
- And Anthropic says MHS devices can be controlled directly in real time via command-line prompts and API code files
- After that, the plan is for MHS to eventually become an open source and “agent agnostic” standard for integrating AI and physical systems
Summary
For now, the “research preview” of the MHS effort is being sold mainly as a way to help scientists streamline the arduous process of creating the custom software integrations that are often needed to get disparate components of an experiment working in concert. In a video posted alongside the announcement, Anthropic Technical Staffer Alek Kemeny says the MHS effort was inspired by observing neuroscientist Arco Bast work through an experiment on memory formation in the brain at the HHMI Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia. There’s nothing about a common machine interface language that requires the use of AI models, of course.