# Anthropic Opens a Hardware Standard Letting Agents Drive Lab and Factory Instruments

In early testing, Anthropic says agents using the standard raised laser stabilization on QuEra's quantum computers from 58 percent to 99.3 percent and compressed a Janelia imaging experiment from weeks to a day.

- Published: 2026-09-03T06:26:17.363Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-03/anthropic-opens-a-hardware-standard-letting-agents-drive-lab
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Anthropic News](https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-hardware-standard-research-preview)

Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification for artificial-intelligence agents to operate physical devices, to a first group of scientific research labs and advanced manufacturers. The st…

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