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Thu 27 Aug16:002 mo ago
NewsBB-0179anthropic.comCurator pick
Anthropic previews the Model Hardware Standard for agents running lab equipment
Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a shared driver spec for agents that operate lab and manufacturing devices. Each device describes its settings and enforced safety limits, and agents reach it over MCP, a CLI or code. In a QuEra case study, an agent-improved laser relock script worked in 99.3% of 700 trials.
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Mon 13 Jul18:003 mo ago
NewsBB-0126arxiv.org
Paper: coding agents write robot behavior trees from an MCP skill contract and run them on a Husarion Panther
Researchers had coding agents write robot behavior trees from a contract served by a robot-side MCP server. The contract lists the robot's skills, allowed operators and optional templates, and a gate validates each tree before it runs. The paper reports tests of Sonnet 4.6 and Gemma4:31b on 110 simulated tasks and 14 on a Husarion Panther running Nav2.
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