Maruthi Manideep Gorla
Co-founder · Autonomy & Product
Team Lead at Turing (US). Building RL-gyms at scale, leading 50+ engineers on customer-centric ML programs. CSE @ IIITDM Kancheepuram, prev. GDSC ML lead.
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The sky is the new soil.
We're building the drone and the autonomy end-to-end — starting with single-drone autonomy under supervised flight, so certified operators spend less time piloting and more time delivering outcomes.
Built in IndiaBuilt within India's drone regulationsDrone + autonomy, built end-to-end
The problem
Agriculture waits. Technology hasn't caught up.
Drones should serve the farmer, not the other way around. Today they demand training, attention, and a remote. That ends here.
6–8 hrs
to spray 10 acres by hand
Manual spraying is slow, uneven, and risks the operator's health. Farmers lose time and uniformity to tired backs.
RC drones
need trained pilots
Today's drones are joystick-first. A farmer shouldn't need flight school to defend a crop from pests.
1 pilot · 1 drone
doesn't scale to 100 acres
Big fields need many eyes and arms at once. Single-drone workflows break at the scale Indian agriculture actually needs.
Phase 01Autonomous
Map the field. We fly it.
Draw a boundary on a phone. The drone plans the path, takes off, executes the mission, and lands itself. The operator's hands stay free for the decisions that actually matter.
Every Phase 1 mission flies with a certified remote pilot on site, per India's current DGCA drone framework. Our autonomy removes the skill ceiling — not the law.
- Tap to define boundaries on a satellite map
- Smart path planning adapts to terrain & obstacles
- Autonomous takeoff, mission, and precision landing
- Live telemetry + post-mission report
Phase 02Swarm intelligenceStatus · R&D
Many minds. One mission.
A fleet of drones divides the field, negotiates regions, and finishes in a fraction of the time. Spraying, scouting, mapping — the swarm decides together, adapts in flight, and ships you the result.
- Mesh communication — every drone talks to every drone
- Dynamic zone partitioning across the field
- On-board decisioning — re-plans when weather shifts
- Meaningful coverage gains on large farms — target 4–6×; real numbers published from pilots
Reality check: Multi-drone coordinated ops aren't covered by current DGCA frameworks. We're building the software now and engaging the regulator; swarms fly commercially when the rules do.
Why now
The biggest farm economy on earth is going autonomous.
India has the fields. The policy has opened up. The silicon is ready. What's missing is a team that builds the drone and the autonomy end-to-end — and treats the drone as a robot, not a remote-control toy. That's us.
“The future of farming isn't more machines. It's machines that think together.”
~46%
of India's workforce is in agriculture PLFS 2022–23
15,000
Kisan Drones targeted under central schemes PIB, 2022
Legal
Commercial agri-drone ops are permitted under India's current drone framework + Agri-drone SOP Ministry of Civil Aviation
Who's building this
A small, unreasonable team — from one campus, one mission.
Three co-founders from IIITDM Kancheepuram covering the three things this problem actually needs: autonomy, robotics, and hardware.
Abhishek Sen
Co-founder · Robotics & Perception
Project Assistant at IIT Madras GNC Lab — ROS2, MAVROS, SLAM, sensor fusion on Jetson Orin. Top Finalist, ISRO Robotics Challenge (autonomous GPS-less drone). Team Captain, Aerobotics Team Astra. ECE @ IIITDM Kancheepuram.
LinkedInNarendra Jalli
Co-founder · Mechanical & Hardware
Mechanical Design Engineer / R&D at Tvasta (Chennai). Prev. Design Engineer at Rebel Racers — built an All-Terrain Vehicle for mBaja 2023. ME @ IIITDM Kancheepuram. CAD, simulations, manufacturing.
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