Anthropic quietly built a wet lab in the Bay Area, wants Claude to direct lab robots
kimmonismus · x · 2026-09-18
Reuters reports Anthropic has quietly built a biology wet lab in the Bay Area, extending into physical experiments. Its life sciences chief Eric Kauderer-Abrams confirmed the lab, saying they're in "the very early innings of using AI to automate the execution of lab work," with plans for Claude to direct laboratory robots. Notably, a spokesperson clarified the lab is not specifically for drug discovery and declined to elaborate — fueling speculation about research into fundamental biology such as aging. It aligns with Dario's repeated framing of biology as a key future field for AI.
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