Launches, releases, funding and papers about agents doing hardware work.
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8 d ago
CNX Software reported on 21 October that Espressif sells ESP-Mosaico, a modular ESP32-S31 kit with a square touchscreen, for $59 on its own store. Espressif's Vibe Coding guide has a coding agent such as Codex build apps from the esp-mosaico-vibe workspace and install them over USB. An on-board agent, ESP-Claw, answers chat requests.
15 d ago
Artificial Analysis launched AA-Robotics v0.1, a benchmark in which language models in coding-agent harnesses control a Hiwonder NexArm robot arm. Models in Codex, Claude Code and Antigravity write code for 8 zero-shot tabletop tasks, watching through 4 cameras. GPT-6 Astra led with 69.4 and Claude Opus 5.5 scored 48.8. Models took about 30 minutes a task; people averaged 20 seconds.
43 d ago
Lattice Semiconductor released Lattice Prompt, a free MCP link between agentic IDEs such as Claude Code or Cursor and its Radiant FPGA software. Lattice says an agent can run simulation, synthesis, place and route, timing analysis and bitstream generation from plain-language requests, grounded in its datasheets. The 16 September release reports productivity gains of 10x or more without a benchmark.
3 mo ago
UST announced an alliance with Anthropic that puts Claude into the engineering platforms UST runs for clients. In UST-iDEC, its hardware and silicon validation platform, Claude Code reads chip pinouts and schematics, then writes and runs regression test scripts that engineers used to write by hand. UST says the platform already cuts validation cycles by 50 to 70%.
3 mo ago
HARDWARIO published a repository on 30 June that holds its TOWER IoT kit's protocol, STM32L083 firmware, CLI, flasher and hardware-in-the-loop bench. It began as a Claude Code control plane over submodules and is now a Rust monorepo with agent instructions. The README says bench runs flash a physical Core Module and measure power with a PPK2.
4 mo ago
Anthropic repeated its robot-dog experiment with Claude Opus 4.7 in Claude Code, a researcher approving each command. On every task a 2025 human team had completed, including connecting to the camera and lidar, Claude was at least ten times faster. Anthropic says its attempts to knock the beach ball back were poorly controlled, and it never finished the autonomous fetch.
5 mo ago
Memfault released an MCP server with 12 read-only tools covering devices, issues, metrics and software versions. In the launch post, Claude Code finds the day's worst new crash, matches its stack trace to the checked-out firmware and drafts a fix. A GitHub MCP server opens the pull request. Memfault says the tools cannot change devices or trigger OTA updates.
5 mo ago
Nordic Semiconductor released 2 MCP servers that connect coding assistants such as Claude Code to its SDK and cloud. The Nordic MCP server adds documentation search, an nrfutil reference, a UART monitor script and SDK workflow commands. The nRF Cloud server reads fleet data such as logs and coredumps, without write access. The post shows no hardware runs.
5 mo ago
Espressif published a recap on 14 May of ESP32 projects from Anthropic's Code with Claude event, where each attendee got an ESP32-S3 M5Stack Cardputer. Attendees described a program in plain language, and Claude Code wrote and flashed it. The post also covers Claude Desktop Buddy, a BLE reference design on the M5StickC Plus, and Espressif's own ESP Desktop Buddy library.
5 mo ago
Keysight has released version 0.1 of its MCP Server for Instrument Control as a Windows executable. The release notes list 18 tools that discover VISA instruments, resolve SCPI commands from each instrument's definition file and run them. An engineer approves a plain-language preview of every command before it reaches hardware. Sessions are logged, and a simulation mode needs no instruments.
