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Certified Agentic AI & Robotics Engineer (CAARE)

Artificial intelligence and robotics are reshaping every industry. Organizations require professionals who can design, build, and deploy autonomous software agents and physical robots that operate reliably, securely, and at scale. The Certified Agentic AI & Robotics Engineer (CAARE) program provides a comprehensive, multi-level curriculum designed to equip engineers with these skills.

The AI Revolution is Here: The Future Belongs to the Architects of Intelligence

The demand for elite AI talent has skyrocketed, creating unprecedented opportunities for skilled engineers. Companies are investing billions not just in technology, but in the human minds that can harness its power. We are very lucky to be living in the age of AI. These figures surpass the earnings of most elite athletes and Fortune 500 CEOs. The message is clear: the race for AI dominance is more intense than ever, and the future belongs to those who can build and master intelligent systems.

$250M Talent Offers

Meta successfully recruited a 24-year-old Ph.D. dropout, Matt Deitke, with a staggering $250 million package after an initial $125 million offer was declined.

$1.5B Rejection

Andrew Tulloch, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, rejected a six-year, $1.5 billion personal compensation package from Meta.

$500B Valuations

OpenAI is negotiating a share-sale round that would value the company at $500 billion, surpassing SpaceX and demonstrating the immense financial race for AI talent.

Multi-Billion Acquisitions

Google licensed technology from Windsurf for $2.4 billion, and Prompt Security was acquired by SentinelOne for $250 million after raising only $23 million.

Agentic AI Strategy for Pakistan

Pakistan must place smart, early bets on agentic AI as we train millions of developers and launch new ventures. Our strategy rests on four working hypotheses:

1. Agentic AI is the trajectory

AI is moving from chat to outcome-oriented agents that plan, use tools, and take actions.

2. Cloud-native foundations win

Kubernetes plus Dapr and Ray provides the scalable, observable, resilient base for distributed agent systems.

3. The learning gap is the bottleneck

Most failures stem from weak workflow design, integration, and governance—not model capability.

4. The web is becoming agentic

Open protocols enable composable automation across apps, devices, and clouds.

Planet Scale AI Agents Building Blocks

In our program we use these building blocks to develop Planet Scale AI Agents. The certification program consists of four levels, each with specific exams tailored to different expertise levels, exams are conducted online, on a fixed schedule, and are proctored.

Prompt & Context Engineering

Master effective AI communication, prompt engineering techniques, and context engineering for building AI agents with proper grounding and tool integration.

Low-Code & Full-Stack Development

Build agentic AI systems using n8n for low-code development and modern Python with OpenAI Agents SDK for full-stack solutions.

Agent-Native Cloud

Deploy and scale AI agents using Docker, Kubernetes, Dapr, and Ray for distributed, planet-scale agentic systems.

Physical AI & Robotics

Integrate AI with hardware systems using NVIDIA Isaac ROS, GR00T, and Isaac Sim for humanoid robotics and physical AI applications.

Your Path to Becoming an AI Leader

Our Certified Agentic AI & Robotics Engineering (CAARE) Program is an intensive, hands-on journey designed to forge the next generation of AI pioneers. We focus on the next wave of AI—Agentic AI and Robotics—moving beyond foundational knowledge to build practical, real-world expertise. This is not just a certification; it's an interactive career pathway with continuous feedback on your progress. The program is structured into four distinct levels, with exams conducted online via a fixed, proctored schedule.

Certification Overview

The certification program consists of four levels, each with specific exams tailored to different expertise levels, exams are conducted online, on a fixed schedule, and are proctored

Level 1: Agentic AI Foundations

Focuses on foundational knowledge in Prompt and Context Engineering, n8n, Python, Markdown, Agentic AI, and related concepts.

Prompt and Context Engineering: Effective AI Communication

L1:P0-PTE

2 Hours and 45 Minutes
150 questions
Covered Topics:
  • Fundamentals: Primary goals and differences between prompt engineering and context engineering
  • Configuration: Temperature, top-K, top-P settings and their effects on output
  • Prompting Techniques: Zero-shot, few-shot, Chain of Thought (CoT), Self-Consistency, ReAct, Tree of Thoughts
  • Best Practices & Pitfalls: Specific instructions, positive constraints, structured formats
  • Testing and Evaluation: A/B testing, metrics for accuracy, relevance, completeness
  • Advanced Techniques: Context management, prompt chaining, multi-modal prompting
  • Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) & Prompting: Architecture understanding and expert-aware prompting
  • Context Engineering Integration: RAG implementation, combining prompts with context
  • 6-Step Framework: Command verbs, rule of three, logic, roleplay, questions, voice memos
  • AI Image Generation Prompting: Professional photography terminology, visual hierarchy, style categories

Low-Code Full-Stack Agentic AI Development

L1:P1-LCF

3 Hours
155 questions
Covered Topics:
  • Fundamentals of AI chatbots vs. agents, core components, and architecture
  • No-code, low-code, and full-code development spectrum and n8n's role
  • Benefits and vendor lock-in risks of low-code platforms, migration strategies
  • Integration, strengths, and use cases of n8n with OpenAI Agents SDK
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) role, benefits, architecture, and future
  • n8n Editor UI, canvas, nodes, workflow templates, and execution behavior
  • Data flow, expressions, conditional branching, and credentials management
  • AI Agent nodes, memory impact, RAG enhancement, and vector stores
  • Multi-agent benefits/challenges and MCP interaction sequences
  • Webhook integration, Supabase suitability, and real-time triggered actions

Fundamentals of Modern AI Python

L1:P2-FMP

2 Hours
50 questions
Covered Topics:
  • Basics & Typing: Python syntax, type annotations, input(), bytecode, .pyc files
  • Data Types & Immutability: Strings, tuples, lists, sets, dictionary keys, boolean evaluation
  • Operators & Expressions: Operator precedence, identity vs equality, short-circuiting
  • Strings & Slicing: String indexing, raw strings, strip(), replace(), slicing
  • Lists & Tuples: List references, slicing, unpacking, tuple mutability quirks
  • Sets & Dictionaries: Set operations, dictionary keys, comprehensions, frozenset
  • Control Flow & Loops: if-elif-else, while, for loops, else on loops, continue
  • Functions & Scope: Variable scope, type conversion, generators, assignment expressions

Object-Oriented Programming in Modern AI Python

L1:P3-OOP

2 Hours 30 Minutes
70 questions
Covered Topics:
  • Class Fundamentals: Defining classes, __init__ constructor, self parameter, class vs instance attributes
  • Inheritance and Polymorphism: Inheritance syntax, method overriding, super() function
  • Encapsulation: Public, protected (_), and private (__) member naming conventions
  • Magic Methods: __str__, __repr__, __add__, __len__, __eq__, __call__ implementations
  • OOP Decorators: @property (with setters), @classmethod, and @staticmethod
  • Abstract Base Classes: abc module and @abstractmethod decorator
  • Core OOP Principles: Composition over inheritance, SOLID principles (SRP, DIP)
  • Design Patterns: Singleton and Factory design patterns
  • Python's Data Model: Everything is an object concept, type and object relationship
  • Modules and Error Handling: __init__.py file role, try...except blocks

Fundamentals of Agentic AI

L1:P4-FAI

2 Hours
50 questions
Covered Topics:
  • Prompt Engineering: Temperature, top_k, top_p effects, safe system messages, Chain of Thought
  • Markdown: Clickable images with tooltips, numbered and bulleted list formatting
  • Pydantic: @pydantic.dataclasses.dataclass vs BaseModel, type hints for validation
  • OpenAI Agents SDK: General concepts, handoffs, tool calls, dynamic instructions
  • Guardrails: Purpose, timing, tripwires, tracing (traces vs spans)
  • Exception Handling: MaxTurnsExceeded, ModelBehaviorError, runner methods
  • ModelSettings: resolve() method, output_type behavior and schema strictness

Agentic AI Course Catalog

These courses are designed to prepare students and professionals for the certification exams.

100-Level Courses

AI-101: Low Code n8n Agentic AI Development & Modern Python Programming

AI-101 serves as a comprehensive gateway to Python programming for Artificial Intelligence and Low Code Agentic AI Development and prepares you for L1:P1-LCF and L1:P2-FMP certifications. This foundational course emphasizes modern Python programming skills with static typing—a cornerstone of robust, scalable AI projects. You'll design robust n8n workflows, and orchestrate plan-act-observe agent loops that call tools, keep memory, and respect guardrails. The curriculum spans foundational agentic concepts through advanced techniques including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and deployment (self-hosted or cloud).

200-Level Courses

AI-201: Fundamentals of Agentic AI

AI-201 introduces students to the core principles and practices of Agentic AI development. The course explores foundational theories underlying intelligent agent behaviour and provides extensive hands-on experience developing context-aware AI agents using the OpenAI Agents SDK. Through a balanced approach combining theoretical grounding with practical implementation projects, students will develop the expertise necessary to design and deploy functional multi-agent systems.

AI-210: MCP and Building Effective Agents

Building upon the foundation established in AI-201, this course introduces advanced Agentic AI concepts with particular focus on Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agentic Memory, and Agentic RAG. Students will study established agentic design patterns for building effective agents.

AI-220: Agentic Web

AI-220 focuses on Agentic Web theory and the practical implementation of Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol systems. Students will explore how intelligent agents interact across web-based environments, share contextual information, and collaborate effectively on distributed computational tasks. The course examines core design principles for building web-native, cooperative AI systems and demonstrates how A2A protocols enable real-time communication between agents operating in diverse environments.

300-Level Courses

AI-301: Agent Native Cloud Development

This advanced course focuses on cloud-first development methodologies for Agentic AI systems. Students will explore scalable, distributed AI architectures utilizing industry-standard containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes for deploying AI Agents and MCP Servers. Through comprehensive hands-on projects, students will design and deploy production-ready AI applications optimized for cloud environments.

AI-310: Planet-Scale Distributed AI Agents

The capstone course in distributed AI systems covers enterprise-grade distributed application runtime environments, focusing on Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) implementation alongside managed database systems and messaging architectures. Students will design and implement planet-scale AI agent networks capable of operating across global distributed infrastructure.

400-Level Courses

AI-451: Physical and Humanoid Robotics AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced remarkable advancements in recent years. However, the future of AI extends beyond the digital space into the physical world, driven by robotics. This new frontier, known as "Physical AI," involves AI systems that can function in the real world and comprehend physical laws. This marks a notable transition from AI models confined to digital environments. Humanoid robots are poised to excel in our human-centred world because they share our physical form and can be trained with abundant data from interacting in human environments. This course provides an in-depth exploration of humanoid robotics, focusing on the integration of ROS 2 (Robot Operating System), Gazebo Robot Simulator, and NVIDIA Isaac™ AI robot development platform. Students will learn to design, simulate, and deploy advanced humanoid robots capable of natural interactions. The curriculum covers essential topics such as ROS 2 for robotic control, simulations with Gazebo and Unity, and using OpenAI's GPT models for conversational AI. Through practical projects and real-world applications, students will develop the skills needed to drive innovation in humanoid robotics.

Appendix: The Reality of the AI-powered Era

The Future Belongs to Those Who Master AI. Companies are willing to spend fortunes for elite AI minds. One exceptional individual can create billions in value. Read these stories to understand the potential of AI-powered careers.

Matt Deitke - $250M Package

PhD dropout, initial offer: $125M (declined as too low), Zuckerberg counters: $250M, $100M in the first year alone

Read Full Story

Andrew Tulloch - $1.5B Rejection

Co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, Meta dangled a six-year, $1.5B pay package, Tulloch flat-out rejected Zuckerberg's offer

Read Full Story

Prompt Security - $250M Acquisition

Two-year-old GenAI-cyber startup, snapped up by SentinelOne for $250M cash deal, had raised only $23M before the buyout

Read Full Story

Clay - $3.1B Valuation

AI sales-automation platform, raises $100M led by Alphabet's CapitalG, valuation rockets to $3.1B (up from $1.5B three months ago)

Read Full Story

Google-Windsurf - $2.4B License

Google pays a $2.4B license fee to Windsurf, CEO Varun Mohan & R&D team join Google DeepMind

Read Full Story

OpenAI - $500B Valuation

OpenAI negotiating an internal share-sale round, would value the firm at $500B, topping SpaceX, jump of ~67% from its prior $300B mark

Read Full Story

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Certification Program Details

The CAARE program is an intensive, hands-on journey designed to forge the next generation of AI pioneers. We focus on the next wave of AI—Agentic AI and Robotics—moving beyond foundational knowledge to build practical, real-world expertise.

Four Progressive Levels

From foundations to professional expertise in AI agents, cloud deployment, and physical AI systems

Proctored Online Exams

Fixed schedule, online proctored examinations ensuring certification integrity and value

Continuous Feedback

Interactive career pathway with ongoing progress tracking and expert guidance

Ready to become an AI leader?

Join the ranks of elite AI professionals commanding unprecedented compensation and shaping the future of technology.

Level 1 & 2 Available Now

Begin with foundational concepts and advance to professional-level agentic AI development. Levels 3 and 4 are currently under development.

Online proctored examinations

Industry Recognition

Join professionals earning $250M+ packages and working at companies valued at $500B+. The AI revolution rewards those who master these skills.

Global certification program