· The drone has been developed by Kochi based private industry.
· The drone is compatible for underwater research and development activities.
· In long run the drone will be useful for commercial production for defence purposes.
· It can bear the harsh and most critical underwater environment.
· It can perform the visual inspection and survey of the submerged structure upto the depth of 100 meters.
· It can be controlled by joy-stick or laptop. It carried an HD camera for underwater recording.
· It is also equipped to perform variety of functions, including inspection of ship hulls, undersea cables or bridge moorings, fish farms, dams, structure and bridge foundations .
· Its commercial use will eliminate need for costlier and riskier manual inspection by divers.
· It is first commercial remotedly operated vehicle (ROV)/ underwater drone.
· Eyerovtuna, was developed by EyeROV Technologies, a company incubating at Maker Village which is the largest hardware incubator in the country.
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