Mysuru lit up the night sky to make history with drone show. (photo credit botlab.dynamics/instagram)

India set a new Guinness World Record with the Mysuru Dasara Drone Show. The show on the night of October 18 featured a giant dancing peacock using 3,473 drones on full display at the Torchlight Parade Ground in Bannimantap, Mysuru.

According to ANI , Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation Limited (CESC) organised the drone show. BotLab Dynamics, a company incubated at IIT Delhi, performed it.

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In addition to the record-breaking peacock, the 2026 drone spectacle displayed striking light formations of a lion, a butterfly, Goddess Chamundeshwari, and a soldier holding the Indian Tricolour.

The drone display set a record for the largest aerial display of a bird made using multirotors or drones. The video featured different formations before the drones dispersed and reorganised into a peacock formation.…