Students of IIT Indore invent an indigenous, high-performance drone

The Indian Institute of Technology Indore's efforts to manufacture a high-performance drone using indigenous microprocessors turned successful with the Shakti processor developed by IIT Madras and the Vega processor developed by the CDAC. IIT Indore has developed a drone using indigenous equipment.

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): The Indian Institute of Technology Indore's efforts to manufacture a high-performance drone using indigenous microprocessors turned successful with the Shakti processor developed by IIT Madras and the Vega processor developed by the CDAC. IIT Indore has developed a drone using indigenous equipment. This experiment is being done under the Government of India's 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' campaign.

IIT Indore built drones with indigenous microprocessor

Earlier, during the Indigenous Microprocessor Challenge, 6,169 teams have participated including a team from IIT Indore. These teams pitched to design equipment using the indigenous microprocessor. IIT Indore has successfully entered the first 30 challengers with their automatic drone using the same indigenous microprocessor.

IIT Indore has been working on drone technology for over a year

According to officials of the Indian Institute of Technology Indore (IIT Indore), the team that developed the drone includes PhD researchers Gopal Raut, Saurabh Karkun, Chavez Malik, Jogesh Kumar and Sudhir Reddy.

These students have been working on drone technology for the last one year. They have developed a drone that has a range of 10 kilometres and can also function in the deep forest. The drone uses 100 per cent indigenized components and equipment.

A cash reward of INR 2500000 for winning team

The competition organised by the Government of India has a cash reward of Rs 25 Lakhs which will be awarded to the winning team. IIT Indore's team is also in contention of winning this award. Currently, 30 teams have been selected which will be evaluated and shortlisted to the final 10 teams.