🔥 Anthropic Opens Biology Lab and Prepares Claude for Robots
Anthropic confirmed: the wet lab in the Bay Area is already operational, but automation is "at the very beginning" — Claude is to control robots under human supervision. The size of the lab and the level of biosafety have not been disclosed.
🌍 AI biotech is moving beyond "in silico" to physical experiments — a path previously built only by pharma companies and Isomorphic Labs (Alphabet). Claude is becoming an executor of protocols, not just an analyst.
👤 The creator of a leading LLM is publicly holding a biology lab for the first time: watch how quickly AI automation of science reaches real experiments — and monitor biosafety: Anthropic itself has reported on the dual-use risks of its models.
Source 1: https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-quietly-sets-up-biology-lab-it-ramps-ai-drug-program-2026-09-18/ Source 2: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/anthropic-quietly-sets-up-biology-lab-as-it-ramps-ai-drug-program-report.html