Tracks
Every DART programme sits on one or more of these tracks. Each track has three levels, and each level ends with something you built working.
Ground robotics
Build an unmanned ground vehicle from bare chassis to autonomous navigation, on the same drivetrain ideas as STRYKER.
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Level 1: Drive
Chassis, DC and BLDC motors, motor drivers, batteries and wiring. Finish by driving your rover over RC.
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Level 2: Sense
Encoders, IMU, ultrasonic and ToF sensors, PID speed control and live telemetry from an ESP32.
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Level 3: Navigate
LiDAR, mapping and waypoint navigation. Plan a route and let the rover drive it on its own.
Programmes on this track
- Workshop Build and drive a rover A one-day workshop on your campus. Teams wire a ground rover from a bare chassis and drive it through a course by the end of the day. Ground robotics 1 day, 6–8 hours On request ₹800 – ₹1,200 per student + GST, or a flat fee per batch
- Bootcamp Robotics bootcamp Five days at Kerala Startup Mission, Kalamassery. Go from wiring a rover to sending it on an autonomous waypoint mission. Ground robotics 5 days Next: 14 Dec 2026 ₹6,000 – ₹8,000 + GST
- Internship Industrial internship Four to eight weeks working on live drubelabs modules for STRYKER, Sentinel OS and LiteWing, with an engineer as your mentor. Aerial systems, Autonomy software, Embedded & ROS 2, Ground robotics 4–8 weeks Next: 11 Jan 2027 ₹12,000 – ₹25,000 + GST, by length
- Residency Defence technology residency Twelve weeks for graduates and working engineers. A cohort of ten builds an unmanned system capstone with drubelabs engineers. Autonomy software, Ground robotics 12 weeks, from April 2027 On request ₹45,000 – ₹60,000 + GST
- For institutions Lab-in-a-Box A robotics and drone lab for your college or school: kits, curriculum, faculty training and a year of support. Aerial systems, Embedded & ROS 2, Ground robotics Set up in 4–6 weeks, supported for 12 months On request ₹4 – ₹12 lakh per lab, by size
- For institutions Faculty development programme Five days that prepare your faculty to teach hands-on robotics and drone labs with confidence. Aerial systems, Embedded & ROS 2, Ground robotics 5 days On request ₹1.5 – ₹2.5 lakh per batch + GST
- School club Weekend robotics club Weekend sessions for Class 8–12 students: build small robots, learn to code them and enter competitions. Ground robotics Weekends, term by term On request ₹2,500 per month
Aerial systems
Assemble, tune and code small drones inside a netted flight cage, on our ESP32 unmanned aerial vehicle platform.
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Level 1: Fly
How multirotors fly: frames, motors, ESCs, propellers, batteries and safe flying practice in the cage.
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Level 2: Tune
Flight controller firmware, PID tuning, ToF height hold and optical-flow position hold.
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Level 3: See
Camera-guided flight: stream from an ESP32-CAM, detect a target and make the drone follow it.
Programmes on this track
- Workshop Fly and code a drone A one-day workshop on your campus. Students assemble a small ESP32 drone, flash its firmware and fly it inside a netted cage. Aerial systems 1 day, 6–8 hours On request ₹800 – ₹1,200 per student + GST, or a flat fee per batch
- Bootcamp UAV bootcamp Five days building, tuning and coding drones, ending with a camera-guided follow flight. Aerial systems 5 days Next: 18 Jan 2027 ₹6,000 – ₹8,000 + GST
- Internship Industrial internship Four to eight weeks working on live drubelabs modules for STRYKER, Sentinel OS and LiteWing, with an engineer as your mentor. Aerial systems, Autonomy software, Embedded & ROS 2, Ground robotics 4–8 weeks Next: 11 Jan 2027 ₹12,000 – ₹25,000 + GST, by length
- For institutions Lab-in-a-Box A robotics and drone lab for your college or school: kits, curriculum, faculty training and a year of support. Aerial systems, Embedded & ROS 2, Ground robotics Set up in 4–6 weeks, supported for 12 months On request ₹4 – ₹12 lakh per lab, by size
- For institutions Faculty development programme Five days that prepare your faculty to teach hands-on robotics and drone labs with confidence. Aerial systems, Embedded & ROS 2, Ground robotics 5 days On request ₹1.5 – ₹2.5 lakh per batch + GST
Embedded & ROS 2
The electronics and software every robot runs on, from a single microcontroller to a ROS 2 network of computers.
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Level 1: Wire
Microcontrollers, C/C++, GPIO, PWM, I2C, SPI and UART. Read sensors and drive actuators.
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Level 2: Design
Schematic capture and PCB layout for an ESP32-S3 carrier board, then bring it up on the bench.
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Level 3: Connect
ROS 2 nodes, topics and launch files, DDS networking and splitting a robot across a Pi and a laptop.
Programmes on this track
- Bootcamp ROS 2 bootcamp Five days on ROS 2 Jazzy: nodes, topics, launch files and running one robot across a Raspberry Pi and a laptop. Embedded & ROS 2 5 days On request ₹6,000 – ₹8,000 + GST
- Internship Industrial internship Four to eight weeks working on live drubelabs modules for STRYKER, Sentinel OS and LiteWing, with an engineer as your mentor. Aerial systems, Autonomy software, Embedded & ROS 2, Ground robotics 4–8 weeks Next: 11 Jan 2027 ₹12,000 – ₹25,000 + GST, by length
- For institutions Lab-in-a-Box A robotics and drone lab for your college or school: kits, curriculum, faculty training and a year of support. Aerial systems, Embedded & ROS 2, Ground robotics Set up in 4–6 weeks, supported for 12 months On request ₹4 – ₹12 lakh per lab, by size
- For institutions Faculty development programme Five days that prepare your faculty to teach hands-on robotics and drone labs with confidence. Aerial systems, Embedded & ROS 2, Ground robotics 5 days On request ₹1.5 – ₹2.5 lakh per batch + GST
Autonomy software
Linux, telemetry and fleet software for field robots, taught by the team that builds DRL Sentinel OS.
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Level 1: Operate
Linux, the shell, Python, Git and networking basics for robots in the field.
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Level 2: Monitor
Build a web dashboard for live telemetry, video and maps with Node.js and React.
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Level 3: Harden
Sentinel OS concepts: secure boot, encrypted links, logging and running a small fleet.
Programmes on this track
- Internship Industrial internship Four to eight weeks working on live drubelabs modules for STRYKER, Sentinel OS and LiteWing, with an engineer as your mentor. Aerial systems, Autonomy software, Embedded & ROS 2, Ground robotics 4–8 weeks Next: 11 Jan 2027 ₹12,000 – ₹25,000 + GST, by length
- Residency Defence technology residency Twelve weeks for graduates and working engineers. A cohort of ten builds an unmanned system capstone with drubelabs engineers. Autonomy software, Ground robotics 12 weeks, from April 2027 On request ₹45,000 – ₹60,000 + GST
We’ll drive a rover into your seminar hall. The demo is free.
A 45-minute session with a live rover drive and a drone flight in a netted cage, for any engineering college in Kerala or Tamil Nadu.