AI just got hands. Anthropic's new Model Hardware Standard lets agents operate microscopes, liquid handlers, and robotic arms. In early testing at HHMI Janelia, it compressed an imaging experiment that normally takes weeks into a single day. The bottleneck it attacks is one most people outside labs have never heard of. Scientific instruments don't talk to each other. Every machine ships with its own proprietary software, so adding one new device means weeks of specialists writing bespoke…