YouLabs.ai secures $20M annual AI platform deal with Catholic Project Fund and Enactus Mexico.
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Phased initiative targets 100,000 students and up to $20 million in annual platform software license value while demonstrating a new model for Physical AI, education, agriculture and workforce development.
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA — September 2026 — YouLabs™ is expanding its Physical AI platform into Mexico through a phased commercial initiative designed to connect students, farmers, AI systems, connected devices and real-world environments through the company's emerging YouBots™ and Smart Bubbles™ technologies.
The initiative is designed to scale from an initial 10,000 students to as many as 100,000 licensed students at full deployment, representing a targeted $20 million in annual platform software license value based on the planned licensing model.
The program is being developed in collaboration with the Catholic Project Fund and Enactus Mexico, creating an environment where students and agricultural communities can gain practical experience with technologies shaping the next generation of the global workforce.
Bringing Physical AI Into the Real World
YouLabs.ai is building technology designed to move artificial intelligence beyond the traditional computer screen and into physical environments.
The company's approach to Physical AI connects AI agents with people, smartphones, smart glasses, drones, sensors, connected devices and other real-world resources.
At the center of this approach is YouBots™, YouLabs' orchestration technology for coordinating connected human and machine resources. YouBots can include people using phones or smart glasses, autonomous systems, drones, robotics, AI agents and other connected devices capable of providing intelligence, observations, action and results in the physical world.
The company's Smart Bubbles™ concept provides an intelligent spatial layer around physical locations and assets, helping transform traditionally passive environments into sources of real-time information, context and intelligence.
Together, these technologies are designed to create a network in which intelligence can be requested, gathered and acted upon across the physical world.
A New Model for AI Education and Workforce Development
YouLabs.ai is developing a Physical AI platform designed to connect people, AI agents, smart devices, sensors, drones, robotics and other real-world resources.
Through YouBots™ and Smart Bubbles™, YouLabs is building technology intended to make the physical world more connected, observable, intelligent and actionable.
The company is focused on creating an orchestration layer for the emerging Physical AI era, enabling intelligence to move between AI systems, people, devices and physical environments.
The Mexico initiative goes beyond conventional technology education.
Participating students are expected to gain practical, hands-on exposure to AI agents, Physical AI systems, agricultural technology, drones, spatial computing, connected devices and other emerging technologies.
The objective is to create a learn-by-doing environment where students can develop skills while participating in real-world applications of AI.
For agricultural communities, the technology is intended to help connect farms and physical operations with live data, intelligent analysis and connected resources.
This approach can help transform farms from isolated physical operations into more intelligent and connected environments capable of generating information that can support better decisions and improve productivity.
Connecting People, AI and the Physical World
YouLabs.ai is developing an architecture designed to coordinate these different components rather than requiring organizations to rely on a single hardware platform or device manufacturer.
YouLabs.ai is developing an architecture designed to coordinate these different components rather than requiring organizations to rely on a single hardware platform or device manufacturer.
Traditional AI systems primarily operate within digital environments. Physical AI introduces another dimension: perception, context and action in the real world.
YouLabs.ai is developing an architecture designed to coordinate these different components rather than requiring organizations to rely on a single hardware platform or device manufacturer.
A Physical AI network could include:
People using smartphones or smart glasses
AI agents
Connected sensors
IoT devices
Drones
Robotics and autonomous systems
Smart locations
Spatial data
Real-time observations
Human expertise
The YouLabs model is designed to bring these resources together through an orchestration layer, with humans in the loop when needed.
From Agriculture and Education to Enterprise Applications
Agriculture and workforce education represent an initial deployment environment for the YouLabs platform.
The underlying technology has potential applications across a much broader range of physical-world environments, including:
Supply chain and logistics
Infrastructure and asset inspection
Energy
Retail
Real estate and location intelligence
Enterprise operations
Healthcare
Public safety
Government
Defense
Smart cities
The common opportunity across these industries is the ability to connect physical environments with intelligent systems capable of collecting information, interpreting context and coordinating authorized actions.
YouBots™: A New Supply Layer for Physical AI
The emerging Physical AI economy will require more than increasingly capable AI models.
It will also require access to the people, devices, sensors and machines that can observe and interact with the physical world.
YouLabs describes YouBots™ as a connected supply layer capable of providing on-demand intelligence and action.
This device-agnostic approach is designed to allow different categories of resources to participate in the same operational network.
A person with a smartphone, a worker wearing smart glasses, a drone, a sensor or an autonomous system can potentially become part of a larger intelligence network when connected through the appropriate YouLabs infrastructure.
Smart Bubbles™: Making Physical Locations Intelligent
Smart Bubbles™ represent another component of the YouLabs Physical AI architecture.
A Smart Bubble can be thought of as an intelligent layer associated with a physical location, asset or environment.
Rather than treating a location as a static point on a map, Smart Bubbles are designed to make physical environments more observable and responsive by connecting available information, devices, people and AI systems.
This creates the possibility of requesting intelligence about a location and receiving information generated from connected real-world resources.
Commercial Validation for Physical AI
The Mexico deployment provides YouLabs.ai with a large-scale environment in which to demonstrate its Physical AI architecture.
At full deployment, the initiative is planned to reach 100,000 registered students and create a significant education and workforce development environment while generating a targeted $20 million in annual software license value.
The commercial model is designed around software licensing rather than dependence on a single category of physical hardware.
That distinction is central to YouLabs' strategy: the company is building an orchestration layer designed to work across multiple types of AI models, connected devices, people and physical systems.
Leadership Perspective
“YouBots™ can become a unifying orchestration layer for the Physical AI era,” said Rowland Hanson, Co-Chairman of YouLabs.ai and former Microsoft Vice President.
The opportunity, Hanson explained, is similar in concept to the role a common software platform can play when an emerging technology ecosystem begins bringing together many different devices, applications and technologies.
Curtis Hutten, Co-Founder and CEO of YouLabs.ai, said the company sees Physical AI as an opportunity to connect AI systems with people and physical resources in ways that can improve real-world operations.
The company believes the combination of AI agents, connected devices, human expertise and physical-world resources can create new categories of intelligence and services.
Building the Physical AI Economy
The transition from digital AI to Physical AI represents a significant shift in how intelligent systems can interact with the world.
Instead of AI simply answering questions or generating digital content, Physical AI can help observe environments, interpret real-world conditions and coordinate resources to produce intelligence and, where authorized, action.
YouLabs.ai is building toward this model through its YouBots™ and Smart Bubbles™ technologies.
The Mexico initiative provides an early commercial and real-world environment for demonstrating that vision across education, agriculture and workforce development.
As Physical AI adoption expands, YouLabs believes the same underlying orchestration model can extend across industries where businesses, governments and communities need better access to real-time information and coordinated action.
About YouLabs.ai
YouLabs.ai is developing a Physical AI platform designed to connect people, AI agents, smart devices, sensors, drones, robotics and other real-world resources.
Through YouBots™ and Smart Bubbles™, YouLabs is building technology intended to make the physical world more connected, observable, intelligent and actionable.
The company is focused on creating an orchestration layer for the emerging Physical AI era, enabling intelligence to move between AI systems, people, devices and physical environments.
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