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AGRI-DRONE · MULTI-AGENT YEAR · 2025 STATUS · ACTIVE PILOTS

Skylark Swarm

A coordinated fleet of small autonomous drones that map crop health, identify disease, and selectively spray — covering ground that would take a human team weeks, in a single morning.

// THE BRIEF

The challenge.

Smallholder farms across rice and pulse-growing regions of eastern India needed precision crop monitoring and selective-spray capability — but at a price point that would actually be deployable. Existing systems were either single-aircraft and slow, or fleet-based and unaffordable.

// THE APPROACH

What we built.

Skylark uses a swarm of 12 lightweight drones coordinated through a mesh-networked, fully decentralized planner. There is no ground station — any drone can lead. Multispectral imagery is processed on-board. The fleet self-heals if up to 3 units are lost mid-mission.

// THE OUTCOME

Field results.

Pilots across 18 farms have demonstrated 3.2× faster coverage than single-aircraft systems, 40% reduction in spray volume through targeted application, and per-hectare costs roughly half of the next-cheapest commercial fleet.

// SPEC SHEET

Technical profile.

Fleet Size
12 units (scalable to 64)
Coverage Rate
65 ha/hour (full fleet)
Per-Unit Mass
1.8 kg
Sensor Suite
Multispectral · RGB · GPS-RTK
Coordination
Decentralized mesh · gossip protocol
Failure Tolerance
Up to 25% unit loss mid-mission
Endurance
32 min per unit · auto-rotate charging
Operator Skill Required
1-day training

Need Skylark Swarm for your operation?

Most of our deployments start as a conversation. Tell us about the environment, and we'll tell you whether this is the right platform — or what to build instead.