Drone startup signs deal with Bengaluru Indian Institute of Science

Garuda Aerospace, a Chennai-based drone startup, announced on Wednesday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for collaborative research operations and services using unmanned aerial vehicles. The Department of Aerospace Engineering at the IISc will be supporting the endeavour.

Agnishwar Jayaprakash, CEO of Garuda Aerospace, said, “The association is a step towards realising the company’s potential to provide developments of digital input processing and packaging tools, including for yield estimation from a given image, diagnoses of crops, surveillance and mapping of fields and lands with the Droni drone (recently launched by former cricket captain M S Dhoni), which will be used for surveillance. We have already been boosting the agricultural sector by providing Kisan drones.”