New mobility with autonomous drones
Key aspects of sustainable consumption and production are the underlying supply chains and the transportation of goods. Work together with Bell to revolutionize current mobility solutions using autonomous drones and create smart solutions to supplement existing transportation models with more efficiency and sustainability.
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✅ Completed 🏁 Winner Congrats to Team ommatidio!
🏆 Prize 20,000 € prize pool prize pool in the Innovate2030 project + joint publication with all stakeholders + chance for further cooperation with Bell
Who are we?
Bell, a Textron Company, is the world's leading manufacturer of vertical flight aircraft for commercial and government customers. The company was founded by Lawrence Dale Bell in 1935 in Buffalo, New York State, and was called Bell Aircraft until it was taken over by Textron in 1960. Bell was the first company in the U.S. to receive certification as a helicopter manufacturer. Since then, the company has manufactured more than 35,000 helicopters, of which around 13,000 are still in service.
Bell is currently delivering helicopters and tiltrotors to the U.S. and international governments and a broad commercial product line that includes a family of single and twin-engine helicopters. Bell is involved in all aspects of rotorcraft design and development from conceptual definition to manufacturing, certification and field support of our products. Each year, Bell conducts substantial research into new and emerging technologies to improve products and provide customers with affordable, productive aircraft that can safely operate over the broadest environmental conditions.
In 2016, Bell established the Innovation Team with the mission to depart from past practices and principles, and radically innovate aerospace technologies. These technologies and aircraft configurations will illuminate the future for Bell, and create novel and coveted vertical lift experiences. This mission allows the Team to capitalize on our capabilities and resources while responding quickly with unique design and manufacturing solutions. The Team’s core draws expertise from over 150 engineers with various levels of experience, varied disciplines, and backgrounds. This balance enables a critical eye while pursuing new concepts and processes. From this vision, the APT 70 was conceived to fulfill the role of air logistics / air cargo transport.
Innovative capabilities: Endurance is improved by autonomous vertical take-off which uniquely transitions to wing-borne flight, providing Multi-copter payload capability with fixed wing speed. On Sep. 28, the Bell APT 70 successfully completed the NASA Systems Integration and Operationalization (SIO) activity. The objective of Bell’s SIO demonstration was to execute a Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) mission in an urban environment transitioning into and out of Class B airspace representing future commercial flights. This successful demonstration highlights the great potential for the APT 70 to complete complex missions for businesses and healthcare providers.
Further information: https://www.bellflight.com/products/bell-apt
What is your vision for the digital and sustainable world of tomorrow?
Our revolutionary solutions lay far beyond innovation department or invention or even a person. It’s about our culture and mindset how we see the world tomorrow. Our solutions are aiming to benefit humans’ everyday life. Digitalized is hence inseparable from sustainable. With this vision we continue our renewed focus on innovation: we create not just a new technology such as APT, but a new solution for a safe urban air mobility based on minimization of our consumption of energy and natural resources and our impact on the environment. Virtual reality and digital thread are more than just trends but our approaches to create an engaging experience to reach out customers’ acceptance.
What values are important when it comes to a digital and sustainable future?
Digital and sustainable future means for us delivering of cutting-edge technologies and services by acting responsibly, sustainably, safely and ethically. Our talented workforce that creates our innovative products is deeply connected to the communities where we live and work. Acting responsibly, sustainably, safely and ethically not only aligns with our company values, but it’s who we are.
What potentials and skills can your company bring to the table in order to shape a sustainable future together with the Digital Generation?
We foster our innovations via sharing of knowledge, inspiring the future, and encourage our teams and students to be creators and the leaders of tomorrow. We use cutting edge technologies in our production processes and always open to the new. Based on these principles we created an innovation team to do radical innovations by encouraging experimentation and creativity. Find out more about our talents supporting program and Bell innovation here:
- Textron Employee Talent Strategy: https://www.textron.com/assets/CR/2019/OurEmployeeTalentStrategy.html
- Bell innovation: https://www.bellflight.com/experience/innovation