Airbus Wants Your Delivery Drone Designs

While the basics of simple unmanned flying machines are simple enough, if drones are going to revolutionize how people do anything, they'll need to do much more, within the basic confines of their design. So Local Motors, a Phoenix-based open-source manufacturing company, is partnering with Airbus to design a cargo drone for the future. Voting on the entrees will begin on June 5th. That's a lot of requirements, and there are more details at the contest page. I particularly like the tube at the center, which reminds me of pneumatic tube systems from banks.