The Hexacopter (six winged helicopter) designed by the students of the Graphic Era University here has won second prize in a Technical contest at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
Weighing 1.87 kg and powered on battery this saucer shaped Hexacopter is designed by III year computer science students Ayush Kumar Dua and Akshya Bharadwaj. Ayush one of the designers said that 45 universities and colleges took part in the three day contest. He said the Hexacopter got cheers form the onlookers when it took water bottles weighing 4.5 kg to a height of 300 meters. Dua and Bharadwaj took one and half months to develop the device in which they have used lithium polymer 4 S batteries. The Chairman of the University Kamal Ghansala congratulated the young students for the achievement; he said that many innovations are being undertaken by various department of the University.