The techies who turned a college project into a successful drone start-up

Mrinal Pai and Mughilan Thiru Ramasamy are building software to power drones for executing critical missions in agriculture, mining, energy and construction

Sitting in a corner cubicle of their facility at hardware accelerator IKP Eden in Bengaluru’s start-up hub, Koramangala, Mrinal Pai and his colleague and co-founder of Skylark, Mughilan Thiru Ramasamy, are busy building the architecture of a new software that can customise the use of drones in a multitude of ways. One such project they have in hand, for example, is to enable a single pilot to control multiple drones or build a drone that can accomplish a task without anyone steering it from the ground.

In fact, some five months ago, when Kerala was hit by one of the