A Chennai-based aviation startup called the ePlane Company has formed a partnership with technology giant NVIDIA to accelerate the development of the e200x, India's first electric air taxi.
The startup is leveraging Nvidia's Omniverse Software to construct a detailed digital twin of the aircraft, the company confirmed in a social media post.
This virtual model, powered by Nvidia, will allow engineers to simulate complex flight physics, evaluate sensor performance and run through various emergency scenarios in a cloud-based environment before initiating physical test flights.
The process will rely on high-performance computing infrastructure and advanced graphics processing units to render aerodynamic physics in real time.
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Apart from virtual simulations, ePlane plans to integrate Nvidia's computing platforms directly onboard the e200x. The company aims to become the first in the region to certify its aviation platforms using hardware from Nvidia's safety-critical stack.
This technology is designed to process continuous streams of data from integrated cameras and radars, thus enabling the electric air taxi to make autonomous, real-time decisions essential for passenger safety.
The digital twin will also serve as a predictive analytics engine. By mirroring the exact configuration of physical aircraft components, the system is designed to anticipate maintenance requirements and identify potential part degradation well before a mechanical failure can occur.
By conducting millions of virtual flight kilometres, ePlane intends to validate every structural and algorithmic decision digitally. This approach is expected to significantly accelerate the pace of innovation within India's emerging urban air mobility sector, ensuring that safety protocols are perfected in the virtual world to provide uncompromising reliability in the physical one.
This comes at a time when Nvidia has been joining hands with major Indian IT firms, having recently struck a partnership with HCLTech during the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
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