Build for flight reality
We design training, drones, and systems around what survives the field — not what merely looks good in theory.
About AerobotLabs
Built where training,
engineering, and flight meet.
AerobotLabs exists to make unmanned aviation genuinely useful: by training pilots, developing UAV systems, and keeping real operations close enough to shape every next build.
DGCA
Authorized RPTO
2
Training bases
100+
Customers served
What guides us
A company shaped by usefulness
Teach capability
Our work compounds when people leave more capable than they arrived: pilots, engineers, institutions, and defence teams alike.
Keep research close
R&D sits beside training and service delivery, so lessons from the ground flow directly back into better systems.
Leadership
The people carrying the signal
The founder section needed less brochure polish and more human weight. These profiles now sit inside the same dark, technical language as the rest of the site.
Founder & CEO
Sakthivelan Ravindranath Tagore
16+ years aerospace & defenceRolls-Royce projectsElectric aircraft R&D
An aerospace engineer, educator, and entrepreneur whose work spans defence, UAV research, and flight-led innovation.
Sakthi began with aeronautical engineering, built ventures early, worked across aerospace and defence programs, and later led the Alma-X Mars Rover team during his master's work at the University of Bologna. His signature is perseverance: turning technically difficult ideas into institutions that can endure.
Co-Founder & CTO
Kartic Ravi
UAV systemsAI & autonomySwarm technology
A systems builder with deep experience across software, automation, UAV development, and field operations.
Kartic started building in the era when UAV parts were scarce and much of the electronics had to be made from scratch. That instinct still defines his work: connecting software, hardware, and operational judgment into drones that are technically elegant and genuinely useful.
Our facility
One ecosystem, not scattered capabilities
Our training footprint is built so classroom learning, simulation, flight practice, and engineering work remain close enough to reinforce one another.
Training Academy
Classrooms, simulator lab, and DGCA-aligned instruction at Mevalurkuppam.
Flight Practice Ground
Open-air flying zones for pilot drills, endurance work, and live demonstrations.
R&D Engineering Hub
Prototype benches, custom payload integration, and mission-led UAV development.
Second Base
Vengal expansion for medium-category RPTO activity and fixed-wing development.
Mevalurkuppam training campus
Company timeline
Growth with receipts
Jun 2023
Idea born
AerobotLabs begins with a clear UAV mission.
Feb 2024
Registered
The company is formally established.
Mar 2025
100+ customers
Commercial traction proves the operating model.
Jun 2025
TNSDC
Training partnerships broaden institutional reach.
17 Jul 2025
DGCA RPTO
DGCA approval marks a major training milestone.
Aug 2025
Defence training
Drone operations training delivered to defence teams.
Dec 2025
Second RPTO
Expansion begins for medium-category RPTO and R&D.
Photo archive
Fragments of the journey
A small visual record of how the company has moved from prototypes to training grounds, defence collaboration, and broader UAV capability.
Field training
Hands-on pilot instruction in the open flight ground.
Defence collaboration
Drone training delivered with frontline teams.
Early prototypes
The workshop years: frames, mechanisms, and first builds.
Growing capability
Custom UAV platforms and payload work taking shape.