Facts

• Segment: Aerial
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2014
• Website: https://dukeroboticsys.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Commercial
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

Duke Robotics develops drone systems and robotic stabilization technology for defence and civilian applications. Its product work includes IC Drone, Bird of Prey and AEROTRACE, spanning weaponized drone stabilization, monitoring and aerial robotic platforms.

Market context

Duke is a small aerial robotics builder with concrete field traction rather than a pure concept-stage drone story. The IEC purchase order gives it a real deployment signal in infrastructure operations. IC Drone Duke Robotics develops stabilized weapon-drone and aerial robotic systems, including the Bird of Prey collaboration with Elbit and the IC Drone utility-inspection platform.

Products

• AEROTRACE
• Bird of Prey
• IC Drone

Facts

• Website: https://dukeroboticsys.com/
• HQ: Fort Lauderdale, United States
• Founded: 2014
• Ticker: DUKR / NASDAQ
• Segment: Aerial

Commercial

2 commercial events; 2 commercial orders; latest event 2026-06-23

• 2026-06-23 - Commercial order - Duke Robotics says Elbit received new Bird of Prey weapon-drone order - source: ca.finance.yahoo.com
• 2026-03-17 - Commercial order - Duke Robotics Announces New Purchase Order from Israel Electric Corporation for IC Drone - source: globenewswire.com

Robotic drone systems and stabilization platforms for defence and civilian markets

Duke Robotics develops advanced robotic drone systems and stabilization solutions for defence and civilian applications. Its public product line includes Bird of Prey, IC Drone and AEROTRACE platforms.

• Target environment: Defence operations, infrastructure inspection, utility operations, aerial surveillance and civilian drone application environments.
• Deployment model: Drone platform model built around robotic stabilization systems, UAV product lines, public-company financing, customer orders and platform development.
• Customer context: Defence users, utility operators, industrial customers, public-sector users and organizations needing stabilized aerial systems.
• Workflow context: Drone stabilization, aerial inspection, defence drone systems, utility inspection, robotic payload operation and autonomous or remotely operated UAV missions.
• Commercial maturity: Duke Robotics has defence-robotics visibility through armed drone stabilization and tactical aerial systems. Scaling depends on procurement traction, product availability, customer adoption, field r…
• Market position: Drone platform company positioned around robotic stabilization and aerial systems for defence and civil markets.
• Adoption constraints: Customer concentration, production scale, financing dependence, certification, field reliability, payload integration and competition from established drone OEMs.
• Adjacent context: Aerial robotics, defence drones, drone stabilization, inspection drones and robotic payload systems.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-06-23 - Commercial Order - Duke Robotics says Elbit received new Bird of Prey weapon-drone order - The order covers the battle-tested Bird of Prey stabilized weapon-drone system marketed through Elbit.
• 2026-06-11 - Executive Hire - Duke Robotics appoints Yiftach Kleinman as CEO - Kleinman previously co-founded and led SpearUAV and held senior business-development roles at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
• 2026-06-02 - Deployment - Duke Robotics starts expanded 2026 IC Drone deployment with Israel Electric Corporation - Duke Robotics commenced its expanded 2026 IC Drone deployment with Israel Electric Corporation for powe…
• 2026-05-14 - Market Signal - Duke Robotics prices $9.2M underwritten public offering and Nasdaq uplisting - Duke Robotics priced an underwritten public offering of 1,125,000 units at $8.20 per unit.
• 2026-03-17 - Commercial Order - Duke Robotics Announces New Purchase Order from Israel Electric Corporation for IC Drone - Duke Robotics received a new purchase order from Israel Electric Corporation for the IC Drone.
• 2026-02-05 - Product Launch - Duke Robotics Announces Launch of AEROTRACE, AI-Powered Advanced Aerial Monitoring and Intelligence Solution - Duke Robotics launched AEROTRACE as an aerial monitoring and intelligence solu…
• 2026-01-13 - Regulatory - Duke Robotics Secures Regulatory Approval for IC Drone Operations in Greece - Duke Robotics received regulatory approval to operate the IC Drone in Greece.
• 2024-08-01 - Partnership - Israel Electric Corporation service agreement for IC Drone operations - Duke Robotics disclosed that it entered a new agreement with Israel Electric Corporation in August 2024 to use the IC Dr…
• 2022-08-15 - Product Launch - UAS Drone's Subsidiary, Duke Robotics, to introduce the IC Drone, a revolutionary, safer and cost-efficient drone technology for conducting routine maintenance of critical infrast… - Duke R…

Team

• Yiftach Kleinman - Chief Executive Officer - Relevant to Duke Robotics because his background connects loitering-drone systems, defense business development and UAS commercialization.
• Raziel Atuar - President - Continues in senior leadership as Duke Robotics adds a new CEO for its defense and drone-technology growth phase.

Relationships

• Corporate parent - GlobeNewswire release framed Duke Robotics as a subsidiary introducing the IC Drone under UAS Drone.
• Utility partner - Initial collaboration with Israel Electric Corporation around IC Drone utility maintenance workflows (2022 launch announcement).
• Utility operator (commercial services) - 2024 agreement to use IC Drone for cleaning electric utility cable insulators; source of initial commercial services revenue (Form 10-K).
• Customer (utility) - Purchase order for IC Drone; expected to generate more than $1 million in revenue in 2026 (GlobeNewswire).
• Elbit Systems Ltd. - Bird of Prey commercialization collaboration - Duke Robotics holds Bird of Prey IP and receives royalties while Elbit markets and receives orders for the stabilized weapon-drone system.

Context tags

• Industrial inspection drone builder - Peer Group
• Aerial inspection - Workflow

Customers and deployments

• Named Customer Rollout - expanded 2026 IC Drone deployment with Israel Electric Corporation - 2026-06-02 - Israel Electric Corporation - power-grid insulator cleaning - Duke Robotics commenced its expanded 2026 IC Drone…
• Expected Revenue Usd - over $1 million in expected 2026 revenue - 2026-03-17 - Israel Electric Corporation - utility infrastructure drone - Duke Robotics received a new Israel Electric Corporation purchase order for IC…