A robotics and drone company has claimed that it has conducted the longest drone flight of 51 km in India to survey the pipeline of the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) in Haryana.
Omnipresent Robot Technologies Founder and CEO Aakash Sinha told PTI that the 51 km-long flight of Omni-Hansa V5 took place on November 3.
“I believe the previous longest drone flight in India was of 42 km,” he said. The entire flight — from take off to landing — was fully autonomous, which means it was on auto-pilot,” he said.
“We had a tracker mechanism on the drone. We could track it over our 4G network with our tracker,” he noted. “HPCL wants Omnipresent to extend the range of Omni Hansa V5 to 100-200 km,” he said.
