The company is building toward a system where Claude can help direct robotic lab equipment running real experiments, while scientists remain in control of the research.
That means AI could eventually help labs test more ideas, repeat experiments faster and keep research moving around the clock instead of relying on people for every single step.
Anthropic is expanding beyond chatbots and into medical and scientific research, with the goal of helping speed up work on new drugs, rare diseases and other hard medical problems.
For the Jewish siblings behind one of the world’s biggest AI companies, it is a major move from answering questions on a screen to helping scientists work inside an actual lab.