Anthropic’s Claude now directs robots running experiments in a physical wet lab

Anthropic has built a physical wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, taking Claude research beyond software and into biological experiments. Reports describe the lab as part of an expansion into drug development and biology, with Claude directing robots that run experiments.

The company is pairing an AI model with real-world lab automation while keeping the program’s boundaries unclear. An Anthropic spokesperson said the lab is not specifically for drug discovery and declined to elaborate, leaving its exact biological focus undisclosed.