July 29 , 2019
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- Students of IIT Madras have developed a smart agricopter to eliminate the manual spraying in agricultural fields.
- The current version of Project Smart Agricopter is a hexacopter drone with the capacity to carry 15 litres of pesticide.
- It aims to spray pesticides 10 times faster and with 100 percent precision at the same cost as manual spraying.
- The drone will work well on crops 1-1.5 m tall.
- It is equipped with a multispectral imaging camera to map a farmland based on crop health.
- This project also won the Indian Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP 2.0) University Challenge held at IIT Bombay in June 2019.
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