Vipul Singh and Suhas Banshiwala met at IIT Kanpur, where Vipul was a research associate in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Suhas had completed his B.Tech and M.Tech in electrical engineering. Vipul had completed his B.Tech in aerospace engineering from Amity University in Noida. It was a meeting of minds and the ecosystem at IIT Kanpur that helped them start Aarav Unmanned Systems (AUS) in 2013. Their venture was incubated at IIT Kanpur and moved to Bengaluru in 2016. Vipul says his expertise was in systems engineering, while Suhas’ was in robotic and drone control systems. They were working together on various projects and started discussing ideas beyond the scope of their work. At that point, drones were being used only for limited purposes, that too only in defence applications. But they realised that technology will advance and drones will gain greater acceptance in civilian applications too.

First-principles approach

The two decided to start from scratch instead of looking…

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