Anthropic opens Bay Area wet lab where Claude-driven robots run biology experiments
dl_weekly · x · 2026-09-29
Anthropic has opened a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area where robots powered by Claude run experiments via the Model Hardware Standard (MHS) protocol co-developed with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; MHS also lets models spot experiment errors, fix them, and write automation scripts.
- Research focus is undisclosed; a spokesperson said the lab is "not for drug discovery specifically," though it ties into Anthropic's June effort on diseases pharma isn't prioritizing.
- Ahead of its release, Anthropic tested Claude Mythos 5.1 at designing high-affinity binders — the molecules that attach drugs to harmful proteins. The model generated 12 candidates with a 50% hit rate, versus the typical 10-15% for protein design projects.
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