ACDC: Airbus Cargo Drone Challenge Highlights
Local Motors had their most successful co-creation challenge to this date, with the launch of ACDC last month. The challenge started with mostly otherworldly and crazy designs from Local Motors’ base automotive design community, but later evolved into a collaborative effort between designers and engineers with the shared vision of building the next gen unmanned cargo vehicle.
Going through the submissions, you will see a nice blend of concepts ranging from pure aircraft design to more user and application focused proposals. You can actually be a part of the selection process by going to the LM platform between June 6th and 16th to vote for your favorite concept!
Here a few of my favorite, non-derivative, original submissions:
Starting with POD a friendly, approachable, multi-purpose Cargo Drone
This Crazy, most-probably-invalid-but-still-elegant, Design
Andromeda (disclaimer: totally not a spy drone!)
And finally Airbus Engineers’ dream design :) it does remind me of a slow but smart chameleon!
P.S.: feel free to build a prototype of any of these designs or others on the challenge page, LM has a very community friendly license for this purpose as long as you don’t use the designs commercially.
