About Us
MachOne is a student led team building AgarthaX, an affordable AI powered agricultural drone designed to help farmers detect crop stress early and prevent yield loss. Farmers lose billions each year because pests, disease, and heat stress are often discovered too late, and existing technology is too expensive to access. AgarthaX combines thermal sensing, plant health sensors, onboard AI, and an off grid energy system to provide early detection at a cost farmers can afford. Our goal is simple: protect crops early, reduce waste, and support food security for communities that depend on agriculture.
Our Team
The drone was developed collaboratively, with each team member contributing to different parts of the system. Work focused on airframe layout, sensor selection, energy management concepts, and overall system behavior. Design decisions were made based on cost, stability, and practicality.
Our Story
Where This Started
MachOne began when our team recognized how often farmers lose crops not because solutions don’t exist, but because early warning tools are too expensive or inaccessible. Seeing the scale of loss caused by late detection pushed us to focus on prevention rather than reaction.
How We Approached the Problem
As students in an aeronautical and engineering focused program, we combined our backgrounds in aerospace design, mechanical systems, artificial intelligence, and business to design a system that is technically realistic and economically accessible. Instead of building a large industrial drone, we focused on early detection, autonomy, and off-grid operation.
What Guides Our Work
Our mindset is simple: problems should be detected before they become disasters. By prioritizing early visibility, affordability, and real-world constraints faced by farmers, we designed AgarthaX as a system meant to support food security and sustainable agriculture, not just technical performance.
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