Facts

• Segment: Defense
• Country: Israel
• Founded: 2014
• Website: https://www.airoboticsdrones.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Airobotics develops autonomous drone-in-a-box systems for industrial, security and government operations. Its Optimus system combines a drone, automated airbase, payloads and software for continuous aerial monitoring, data capture, delivery and interception missions.

Market context

Airobotics is one of the core operating aerial robotics companies inside Ondas and is increasingly the execution layer for large autonomous border-security and counter-UAS deployments.

Facts

• Website: https://www.airoboticsdrones.com/
• HQ: Petah Tikva, Israel
• Founded: 2014
• Segment: Defense

Autonomous drone-in-a-box infrastructure for security and industrial sites

Airobotics develops automated drone systems that combine aircraft, docking infrastructure and operations software for persistent aerial monitoring. Its positioning is strongest in government, homeland-security, smart-city and industrial infrastructure use cases.

• Target environment: Border areas, industrial facilities, ports, smart-city deployments, critical infrastructure sites, defense-adjacent environments and security operations centers.
• Deployment model: Drone-in-a-box infrastructure model built around automated launch and recovery, remote operations, fleet software, payload integration and site-level deployment.
• Customer context: Government agencies, security operators, industrial asset owners, smart-city programs and organizations needing repeatable aerial surveillance without manual drone crews.
• Workflow context: Perimeter monitoring, security patrols, infrastructure inspection, incident response, aerial situational awareness, automated docking and remote fleet operations.
• Commercial maturity: Airobotics operates as a fielded autonomous drone infrastructure company within Ondas Autonomous Systems. Its maturity depends on deployment scale, regulatory permissions and recurring customer prog…
• Market position: Autonomous aerial infrastructure supplier in the security and industrial-monitoring layer.
• Adoption constraints: Regulatory approvals, airspace integration, site reliability, customer procurement cycles, payload performance, maintenance burden and security-market competition.
• Adjacent context: Drone-in-a-box systems, autonomous aerial monitoring, homeland security, smart-city robotics and industrial inspection.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2023-09-06 - Regulatory - Airobotics Optimus 1-EX receives FAA type certification - The certification covered a drone-in-a-box aircraft designed for autonomous security and data capture.
• 2023-03-10 - Partnership - Airobotics signs Dubai Police drone-in-a-box MoU - The agreement covered Optimus drone infrastructure and Iron-Drone counter-UAS systems.
• 2023-03-07 - Acquisition - Airobotics completes acquisition of Iron Drone assets and launches the new counter-drone system - Ondas announced that its subsidiary Airobotics completed the acquisition of Iron Drone''s asse…
• 2023-01-23 - Acquisition - Ondas completes acquisition of Airobotics - Ondas Holdings completed the acquisition of Airobotics, expanding drone-in-a-box and autonomous aerial operations inside Ondas Autonomous Systems.
• 2022-08-04 - Acquisition - Ondas agrees to acquire Airobotics in drone-platform merger - The companies positioned the deal as a way to combine autonomous drone-in-a-box systems and automated data workflows.

Team

• Yishay Curelaru - CFO
• Meir Kliner - Co-founder
• Ran Krauss - Co-founder
• Col. (Res.) Arik Elazar - CEO

Relationships

• Ondas - Acquisition - Airobotics acquired by Ondas Holdings under Ondas Autonomous Systems.
• Iron Drone - Acquired by - Acquired by Airobotics (Mar 2023) as an owned counter-drone interceptor platform.
• Ondas - Acquired by - Acquired by Ondas Holdings under Ondas Autonomous Systems.
• Iron Drone - Parent / owned platform - Airobotics completed acquisition of Iron Drone assets (Mar 2023); counter-drone platform under Ondas Autonomous Systems (Ondas IR release).

Context tags

• Defence customers - Customer Environment - Serves defence and security customers
• Public-safety drone builder - Peer Group - Public-safety and security drone builder
• Drone as First Responder - Workflow - Drone as first responder for security and emergency services
• Drone-in-a-box systems - Workflow - Drone-in-a-box systems for automated launch, mission and recovery
• Automated drone docking stations - Peer Group - Automated drone docking stations for remote autonomous operations
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Commercially deployed with security and industrial customers