Airobotics
About
About Airobotics
Optimus couples an autonomous aircraft with a robotic airbase that launches, recovers and services it between missions. The station handles landing, battery replacement, payload exchange, edge processing and mission turnaround, allowing a remotely managed site to maintain repeated aerial coverage without a crew attending every flight.
Payload options cover electro-optical and infrared video, LiDAR scanning, 2D and 3D mapping and aerial delivery. Live video and locally processed mission data support security, industrial inspection and government operations, including sites with degraded communications or difficult weather. Multiple airbases can be managed as persistent infrastructure, with operator training and operational transition included in deployment.
Products
Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Elsight Ltd.
Inbound - Communications - Elsight Halo provides cellular connectivity for Airobotics' Optimus-1EX drone system
Source
Funding
- 2018-11-05 - Series D - $30M - Airobotics raises $30 million Series D
Airobotics raised $30 million in Series D financing to expand its autonomous industrial drone operations and global commercial footprint. - source: finsmes.com
- 2017-09-07 - Series C - $32.5M - Airobotics raises $32.5 million Series C
Airobotics raised $32.5 million in Series C financing to expand its autonomous industrial drone business into defence, homeland security and additional international markets. - source: techcrunch.com
Investors
- OurCrowd - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2017-09-07 - latest 2018-11-05
- BlueRun Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2018-11-05
- BlueRun Ventures China - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2017-09-07
- Charles River Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2018-11-05
- Microsoft Ventures - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2017-09-07
- Pavilion Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2018-11-05
Team
- Yishay Curelaru - CFO
- Meir Kliner - Co-founder
- Ran Krauss - Co-founder
Timeline
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. The approval supported repeatable U.S. deployments without case-by-case aircraft certification. The approval supports Airobotics Optimus 1-EX's path toward fielded use in unmanned aircraft, air mobility or counter-drone operations.
Source - 2023-03-10 - Partnership - Airobotics signs Dubai Police drone-in-a-box MoU
Airobotics signed an MoU with Dubai Police to cooperate on drone-in-a-box infrastructure and aerial defense systems. The agreement covered Optimus drone infrastructure and Iron-Drone counter-UAS systems. Dubai Police intended to purchase a number of Iron-Drone counter-drone systems under the cooperation.
Source - 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 assets effective March 6, 2023. The release said the counter-drone system would be presented at the World Police Summit in Dubai and integrated into Ondas Autonomous Systems alongside Optimus for homeland-security and critical-infrastructure uses. This is the clear ownership and transition event for Iron Drone and should remain the anchor rather than being retold under conflicting entity narratives.
Source - 2023-01-23 - Acquisition - Ondas completes acquisition of Airobotics
Ondas completed its acquisition of Airobotics effective 23 January 2023, issuing approximately 2.8 million Ondas shares to Airobotics shareholders. Airobotics added the Optimus autonomous drone platform and automated data-analysis software alongside American Robotics Scout. Ondas said the combined drone portfolio would target smart cities, public safety, construction, mining, rail, oil and gas.
Source - 2022-08-04 - Acquisition - Ondas agrees to acquire Airobotics
The companies positioned the deal as a way to combine autonomous drone-in-a-box systems and automated data workflows. Airobotics added international autonomous UAS deployments and regulatory experience to Ondas’ drone portfolio.
Source - 2018-11-05 - Funding - Airobotics raises $30 million Series D
Pavilion Capital led the round. BlueRun Ventures, Charles River Ventures, OurCrowd and private investors participated. The financing brought disclosed capital raised to approximately $101 million.
Source - 2017-09-07 - Funding - Airobotics raises $32.5 million Series C
BlueRun Ventures China led the round. Microsoft Ventures, OurCrowd and another strategic investor participated. The round brought disclosed capital raised at the time to approximately $61 million.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Dubai Police
Deployment Partner - Dubai Police and Airobotics signed an MOU covering Optimus drone-in-a-box infrastructure and Iron Drone counter-UAS systems.
- Ondas Holdings
Parent Company - Ondas consolidated Airobotics and American Robotics under one operating group.
Context
Comparable profiles
- HEISHA
comparable profile - Automated Drone Docking Stations
- Sentien Robotics
comparable profile - Automated Drone Docking Stations
- A2Z Drone Delivery
comparable profile - Automated Drone Docking Stations
Shared workflows
- Asylon
workflow adjacency - Drone As First Responder · Drone In A Box Systems
- Nightingale Security
workflow adjacency - Drone As First Responder · Drone In A Box Systems
- EVERYWHERE Communications
workflow adjacency - Drone As First Responder · Drone In A Box Systems
- Skydio
workflow adjacency - Drone As First Responder
- BRINC
workflow adjacency - Drone As First Responder
- Percepto
workflow adjacency - Drone In A Box Systems
- heliguy
workflow adjacency - Drone In A Box Systems
- Paladin
workflow adjacency - Drone As First Responder
- ARGOSDYNE
workflow adjacency - Drone In A Box Systems
- Tracer Drone Technologies
workflow adjacency - Drone As First Responder
Context tags
- Automated drone docking stations - Peer Group - Official Optimus material documents an autonomous airbase integrating launch, recovery, battery and payload exchange, and mission support: https://www.airoboticsdrones.com/optimus/
- 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
- Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Commercially deployed with security and industrial customers