Smart ring maker Ultrahuman to roll out biological-age model across UAE

Ultrahuman, a Bengaluru-based health tech startup best known for its smart rings, has partnered with Abu Dhabi health authorities to develop a biological-age model that it says will eventually be made available to people across the United Arab Emirates.

总部位于班加罗尔的健康科技初创公司 Ultrahuman 以其智能戒指而闻名，该公司已与阿布扎比卫生部门合作开发一种生物年龄模型，并表示最终将向阿联酋全国民众提供该模型。

On Monday, Ultrahuman announced that it had signed a two-year memorandum of understanding with the Abu Dhabi Public Health Center (ADPHC) to develop and validate the model, which will combine clinical biomarkers with data from wearable devices.

周一，Ultrahuman 宣布与阿布扎比公共卫生中心（ADPHC）签署了一份为期两年的谅解备忘录，旨在开发并验证该模型。该模型将结合临床生物标志物与可穿戴设备的数据。

The partnership aims to use these signals to estimate how quickly an individual is aging and identify factors — including sleep, activity, cardiovascular health, and metabolism — that may be accelerating or slowing that process.

此次合作旨在利用这些信号来评估个人的衰老速度，并识别可能加速或减缓这一过程的因素，包括睡眠、活动量、心血管健康和新陈代谢。

The partnership marks Ultrahuman’s latest effort to go beyond selling wearable hardware and deploy its health algorithms at a much larger scale. The startup increasingly sees itself as a health-data company, with its smart ring serving as one way to collect information that can underpin algorithms spanning aging, longevity, and other areas of health, CEO Mohit Kumar said in an interview.

此次合作标志着 Ultrahuman 在超越可穿戴硬件销售、大规模部署其健康算法方面的最新努力。首席执行官 Mohit Kumar 在接受采访时表示，这家初创公司正日益将自己定位为一家健康数据公司，其智能戒指是收集信息的一种方式，这些信息可以支撑涵盖衰老、长寿及其他健康领域的算法。

“If you look at Ultrahuman as a company, we obviously have the Ultrahuman Ring, which is a way to acquire data from the human body,” Kumar told TechCrunch. “But truly, what we care about is not just the form factor, the ring, but what do we do with this data?”

“如果你把 Ultrahuman 看作一家公司，我们显然拥有 Ultrahuman Ring，这是一种从人体获取数据的方式，”Kumar 对 TechCrunch 表示。“但实际上，我们关心的不仅仅是外形（戒指），而是我们如何利用这些数据？”

Working with a government gives Ultrahuman the opportunity to apply its algorithms to a far broader population than its own customer base, Kumar said. The startup has sold around 800,000 smart rings globally so far.

Kumar 表示，与政府合作使 Ultrahuman 有机会将其算法应用于比其自身客户群更广泛的人群。迄今为止，这家初创公司已在全球售出约 80 万枚智能戒指。

The Abu Dhabi partnership is Ultrahuman’s first step toward deploying a health algorithm at a national scale, with the health age model eventually intended to be available to people across the UAE, according to the company.

据该公司称，与阿布扎比的合作是 Ultrahuman 在国家层面部署健康算法的第一步，该健康年龄模型最终旨在向阿联酋全国民众开放。

Even though Ultrahuman is known for its smart rings, Kumar said the biological-age model is being designed to be wearable-agnostic, allowing data from rings, wrist-worn devices, straps, and patches to feed into the system alongside clinical biomarkers.

尽管 Ultrahuman 以其智能戒指而闻名，但 Kumar 表示，该生物年龄模型在设计上不依赖于特定可穿戴设备，允许来自戒指、腕戴设备、带式传感器和贴片的数据与临床生物标志物一起输入系统。

Individuals will eventually be able to access their health age through government digital-health platforms including TAMM and Sahatna, the startup said. Ultrahuman and ADPHC will spend the next two years working on research and clinical validation of the model.

该初创公司表示，个人最终将能够通过包括 TAMM 和 Sahatna 在内的政府数字健康平台获取自己的健康年龄。Ultrahuman 和 ADPHC 将在未来两年内致力于该模型的研究和临床验证。

Kumar told TechCrunch that the broader rollout will happen in phases, but did not provide a timeline. The UAE is already among Ultrahuman’s 10 largest markets and accounts for about 4% to 5% of its overall revenue, Kumar said.

Kumar 对 TechCrunch 表示，更广泛的推广将分阶段进行，但未提供具体时间表。Kumar 指出，阿联酋已跻身 Ultrahuman 十大市场之列，约占其总收入的 4% 至 5%。

The startup has operated in the market for nearly five years and sees about 25% higher retention there compared with its other markets, he noted. Ultrahuman’s existing customer base gives it a narrower view of the population than a government health system.

他指出，该公司在该市场已运营近五年，其留存率比其他市场高出约 25%。与政府卫生系统相比，Ultrahuman 现有的客户群使其对人口的观察范围较窄。

Its typical users are between 25 and 43 years old, Kumar said, while deploying the model across the UAE would expose it to a much broader range of age groups.

Kumar 表示，其典型用户年龄在 25 岁至 43 岁之间，而在阿联酋全国部署该模型将使其接触到更广泛的年龄段。

The underlying biological-age model was developed using Ultrahuman’s existing data, combining users’ chronological ages with wearable signals and, for some users, blood-test markers, Kumar told TechCrunch. That allows the startup to track how health markers typically change with age and identify deviations from those patterns.

Kumar 对 TechCrunch 表示，底层的生物年龄模型是利用 Ultrahuman 的现有数据开发的，结合了用户的实际年龄、可穿戴设备信号以及部分用户的血液检测指标。这使得该公司能够追踪健康指标随年龄变化的典型规律，并识别出偏离这些模式的情况。

Kumar stressed the model will not be trained on data from the UAE. “We will deploy an algorithm on the UAE data,” he said, adding that Ultrahuman will not have access to personally identifiable information through the program.

Kumar 强调，该模型不会使用来自阿联酋的数据进行训练。“我们将在阿联酋的数据上部署算法，”他说道，并补充称 Ultrahuman 不会通过该项目获取个人身份信息。

Ultrahuman is not the only smart-ring maker working with Abu Dhabi on preventive health. In May, the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi announced a partnership with Ultrahuman arch-rival Oura to combine the company’s wearable data with the emirate’s longitudinal health data, initially focusing on women’s health and cardiometabolic risk.

Ultrahuman 并非唯一一家与阿布扎比在预防性健康领域合作的智能戒指制造商。今年 5 月，阿布扎比卫生局宣布与 Ultrahuman 的主要竞争对手 Oura 建立合作伙伴关系，将该公司的可穿戴设备数据与阿联酋的纵向健康数据相结合，初期重点关注女性健康和心脏代谢风险。

Kumar told TechCrunch that Ultrahuman is not aware of another company working with Abu Dhabi authorities on the health age model specifically. While he acknowledged that the government works with multiple health-tech companies, he declined to comment on the scope of Oura’s work with Abu Dhabi.

Kumar 对 TechCrunch 表示，Ultrahuman 不了解有其他公司专门与阿布扎比当局合作开发健康年龄模型。虽然他承认政府与多家健康科技公司有合作，但他拒绝就 Oura 与阿布扎比合作的范围发表评论。

The parallel partnerships come as Ultrahuman and Oura compete in the smart-ring market while looking to push their businesses beyond wearable hardware and deeper into preventive health. The work with the Abu Dhabi authorities also comes as Ultrahuman is looking to build a smart ring that can run software on the device and even power everything from AI interactions to games.

这些平行的合作关系正值 Ultrahuman 和 Oura 在智能戒指市场竞争之际，同时两家公司都寻求将业务从可穿戴硬件扩展到更深层次的预防性健康领域。与阿布扎比当局的合作也正值 Ultrahuman 寻求打造一款能在设备上运行软件，甚至支持从人工智能交互到游戏等各种功能的智能戒指之时。