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Anthropic didn't enter robotics — it ran the MCP playbook on the physical layer

On 27 August 2026 Anthropic opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a spec for AI agents to operate lab and manufacturing equipment. It ships no robot model, is explicitly model-agnostic, rides on MCP, and is promised as open source. That combination is not a product launch — it is the same interface-first strategy that made MCP the default, aimed at a category that already has two mature open standards and has still never worked.

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