Skybridge
Skybridge Unmanned Helicopter by Chen Xu is a winner of the 2025 Silver A' Design Award in Futuristic Design.
Skybridge is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs.
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Designed for ship to island cargo transport, this helicopter draws biomimetic inspiration from marine organisms' hydrodynamic efficiency. The streamlined fuselage and rotor system, engineered through analysis of oceanic lifeforms' drag resistant structures, achieves 260kg payload capacity, 6,000m altitude with 12m/s wind resistance, via biomechanically optimized airframe and multi hook suspension. These redefine maritime logistics, specifically solving last mile delivery challenges for portless islands.
Featured Design
Skybridge by Chen Xu
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Unmanned Helicopter
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Futuristic Design Award Winner in 2025.
Silver Winner
Skybridge Unmanned Helicopter
Skybridge is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Skybridge is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Skybridge is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.
Winner Designer
Chen Xu
As a design studio in China, “SX” stands for Chinese “ShangXiang” which taken from “Yi Chuan”. The name expounds our core opinion: To build significance of daily life through the observation, extraction, abstraction and reorganization of phenomena. sxdesign creates and values languages and ideas of client and user, such as requirements, knowledge, or the attitude of sxdesign itself.
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Beihang University
Beihang University (BUAA; formerly as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction.
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