About

About IC Drone

IC Drone carries a stabilised cleaning system to high-voltage transmission insulators, allowing a crew to remove conductive contamination without lifting workers to the structure. The second-generation ICDS2 uses a larger commercial-grade airframe with greater payload capacity, longer flight time, improved cleaning durability and radar-assisted operation. Stabilisation keeps the cleaning jet directed at the insulator while the aircraft counters reaction forces.

Utility crews transport and operate the system as a specialised high-voltage maintenance service. Duke Robotics began expanded 2026 operations with Israel Electric Corporation using multiple field crews and a larger number of serviced insulators. The platform sits alongside AEROTRACE, the company’s infrastructure-monitoring product, but IC Drone’s defining role is physical cleaning and associated inspection of high-voltage grid assets.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

Workflows: Insulator cleaning, infrastructure monitoring, utility maintenance, aerial data capture and reduced human exposure near high-voltage assets.
Operating environments: Defence operational environment
Target markets: Utilities, grid operators and infrastructure maintenance teams needing aerial maintenance systems for power assets.
Deployment model: Commercial utility drone system tied to Duke Robotics' civilian aerial robotics product line.
Power-line insulator cleaning
Commercial deployment - 2024-11-11 - Duke Robotics states that the IC Drone became operational with Israel Electric Corporation after a successful pilot, using a drone-mounted system to wash energized power-line insulators.
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Power-line insulator cleaning
Customer-site use - 2026-06-02 - Duke Robotics commenced its expanded 2026 IC Drone deployment with Israel Electric Corporation for power-grid insulator cleaning. - environment: power-grid insulator cleaning
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Power-line insulator cleaning
Claimed - 2022-08-15 - Duke Robotics introduced the IC Drone as a drone-enabled system for cleaning electric utility insulators.
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Operations

Order / Commitment
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 Drone, expected to generate over $1 million in 2026 revenue.
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Deployments

Commercial Activity
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 deployment with Israel Electric Corporation for power-grid insulator cleaning.
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Timeline

Duke Robotics starts expanded 2026 IC Drone deployment with Israel Electric Corporation
2026-06-02 - Deployment - Duke Robotics commenced its expanded 2026 IC Drone deployment with Israel Electric Corporation for power-grid insulator cleaning. The company described the deployment as the largest commercial deployment of the IC Drone platform to date. Duke said the IEC work is expected to generate more than $1 million in 2026 revenue.
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Duke Robotics Announces New Purchase Order from Israel Electric Corporation for IC Drone
2026-03-17 - Commercial Order - Duke said the order is expected to generate more than $1 million in revenue during 2026. The expanded engagement covers drone-based cleaning and maintenance of energized high-voltage infrastructure.
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Duke Robotics Secures Regulatory Approval for IC Drone Operations in Greece
2026-01-13 - Regulatory - Duke Robotics received regulatory approval to operate the IC Drone in Greece. The approval supports the company's commercial expansion efforts for IC Drone utility-service operations in Europe. The event extends the IC Drone's operating footprint beyond Duke's existing Israel activity.
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Israel Electric Corporation service agreement for IC Drone operations
2024-08-01 - Partnership - Duke Robotics disclosed that it entered a new agreement with Israel Electric Corporation in August 2024 to use the IC Drone for cleaning electric utility cable insulators. The company identified the agreement as the source of its initial commercial services revenue in 2024. The disclosure positioned the arrangement as a commercial operating agreement following the earlier development-phase collaboration.
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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…
2022-08-15 - Product Launch - Duke Robotics introduced the IC Drone as a drone-enabled system for cleaning electric utility insulators. The company described the system as its first civilian application built from its stabilization, autonomy, and robotic-control stack. The launch was tied to an initial collaboration with Israel Electric Corporation around utility maintenance workflows.
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Context

Market context

IC Drone is Duke Robotics' drone-enabled system for cleaning, maintaining and monitoring high-voltage utility insulators.

Target environment: Electric utility networks, transmission infrastructure, substations and high-voltage field maintenance environments.
Workflow context: Insulator cleaning, infrastructure monitoring, utility maintenance, aerial data capture and reduced human exposure near high-voltage assets.
Customer context: Utilities, grid operators and infrastructure maintenance teams needing aerial maintenance systems for power assets.
Deployment model: Commercial utility drone system tied to Duke Robotics' civilian aerial robotics product line.
Commercial maturity: Commercial product with public utility-deployment positioning.
Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on utility procurement, safety certification, cleaning performance, weather conditions, pilot workflow and regulatory permissions.
Market position: Civilian aerial robotics product focused on utility maintenance rather than general inspection or defense payloads.
Adjacent products: AEROTRACE, Skydio X10, Percepto Air Max, DJI Matrice utility payloads