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technology1 day ago•5 min saved

Anthropic Puts Guardrails on AI’s First Steps in the Physical World

Anthropic unveiled Model Hardware Standard, a rules-based framework guiding how AI agents interact with physical hardware (microscopes, robots, manufacturing gear, quantum devices) to speed up science and manufacturing while embedding safeguards. The goal is to let AI automate experimental workflows with safety guardrails and to validate the approach with trusted partners before broad release, addressing concerns about potential misuse and rogue behavior as AI moves into the physical world.

via WIRED|

#ai-agents #artificial-intelligence #hardware-standard

technology3 months ago•5 min saved

AI agent teams accelerate scientific discovery

Two AI-agent systems described in Nature—Google DeepMind's Co-Scientist and FutureHouse's Robin—use teams of AI to generate hypotheses, pick experiments, and analyze data to speed up early drug-discovery work. In initial tests they proposed plausible repurposing candidates for AML and dry AMD, with humans carrying out the experiments and validating results; while promising, most candidates require further validation in broader use.

via Nature|

#ai #biomedical-research #drug-discovery

technology6 months ago•7 min saved

AI-powered robot labs slash protein-synthesis costs, but humans still needed

A collaboration between OpenAI and Ginkgo Bioworks used a GPT-5–driven autonomous lab to optimize cell-free protein synthesis, achieving a 40% further cost reduction beyond a human-led record and testing more than 30,000 conditions in six months. While the approach shows promise, current robots still lack dexterity for bespoke or tissue-related experiments, meaning human biologists’ expertise remains essential for future breakthroughs.

via Nature|

#autonomous-labs #gpt-5 #lab-automation

microbiology3 years ago•2 min saved

Exploring Bacterial Metabolism through Gaming.

BacterAI, an integrated lab automation and machine learning platform, could help overcome the challenges of culturing understudied microorganisms by learning appropriate culture conditions as a game. Currently, fewer than 2% of all microbial species are culturable due to a lack of knowledge about growth requirements and the tedious, labour-intensive experiments that stand in the way of this essential knowledge. BacterAI could be the future of studying microbial diversity and discovering novel bioactive molecules such as antibiotics.

via Nature.com|

#bacterai #culturing #lab-automation