Sunday, January 15, 2017

14-year-old Gujarat boy signs 5 crore deal for production of his anti-landmine drone...

A 14-year-old boy in Gujarat has signed an agreement worth Rs. 5 crore to explore the possibility of
commercial production of a drone created by him which can help in detecting and defusing landmines in war fields.

Harshwardhan Zala, who is studying in Class 10, started work on the prototype of the landmine-detecting drone last year after reading in newspapers about high army casualties due to landmines.

"I first created a land mine detecting robot but realised that since the weight is heavy it would trigger a blast and damage it so I thought of creating a drone which will be at a safe distance while detecting the mines," said Harshwardhan, who signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the recently-concluding Vibrant Gujarat summit in Ahmedabad. Full story...

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