A talk from Walden on deployment-first physical AI: getting general-purpose robots into real manufacturing production, using remote assistance as a human-in-the-loop safety and learning mechanism, and building a data flywheel in which operational data drives continuous improvement of large behavior models.
The Model Hardware Standard (MHS) is a pioneering framework developed by Anthropic and HHMI Janelia to enable AI, specifically Claude, to safely and intelligently operate diverse scientific and manufacturing hardware. By abstracting device-specific communication, MHS dramatically accelerates scientific discovery, from automating complex microscopy tasks and real-time tracking to optimizing high-throughput drug screening, empowering researchers to focus on core scientific questions.