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.
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. 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.
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...
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