New Delhi, Sept. 25 -- A new artificial intelligence platform is making it easier for lab equipment to communicate with one another, which could help speed up and streamline research automation. Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS), created in collaboration with the Janelia Research Campus at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, enables a wide range of lab tools to communicate with one another and can also enable AI agents to run and coordinate experiments, as reported by Nature.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are testing the system, the report said. The aim is to address a common challenge in research laboratories: machines from different manufacturers use different software and programming l...