Mercury 1 unmanned helicopter rolled off the assembly lines in Wuxi on Nov 17.[Photo/js.xinhuanet.com]

Mercury 1, the first unmanned helicopter of Wuxi Hanhe Aviation Technology Co produced in its automatic production line, rolled off the assembly lines on Nov 17 2017, in Wuxi , Jiangsu province.

The helicopter is equipped with five CPUs, equivalent to five computers, four radios, 13 sensors, three lidar equipment, and three binocular vision systems. The helicopter is both a flying agricultural robot and a flying big data collection platform.

Hanhe Aviation General Manager Sun Xiangdong said during the launching ceremony that Hanhe Aviation has developed into an explorer and leader in China's plant protection drone industry and Hanhe aims to make robots serve human beings as well as the agricultural industry.

Hu Yi, vice director of Wuxi's Xinwu district, also addressed the ceremony, pledging that the government will continue supporting Hanhe's scientific innovation, to transform the company into a cluster for unmanned helicopters featuring high technologies, skilled elites and high profit.

After the ceremony, the guests, including Zhou Minwei, chairman of the Wuxi committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Gao Yaguang, Wuxi's vice mayor, Hu Yi, vice director of Xinwu district, Yuan Dejin, division chief of Jiangsu Province Supply and Marketing General Cooperative, Xu Shouquan, general manager of Xinhuanet Co (Jiangsu), witnessed the operation of Hanhe's plant protection drone and visited the company's automatic production line, learning more about the aviation products.