Ondas acquires Roboteam for $80 million as U.S. group deepens Israeli buying spree
The ground-robotics deal follows this month’s $225 million purchase of Sentrycs as Ondas accelerates its system-of-systems strategy.
Ondas Holdings, a U.S. robotics and defense-technology group with a market capitalization of roughly $3 billion, has agreed to acquire the Israeli unmanned-ground-vehicle developer Roboteam in an $80 million deal, its seventh Israeli acquisition in recent months, and its second this month alone.
The purchase marks the latest step in an aggressive consolidation strategy that is rapidly reshaping parts of Israel’s defense-tech landscape. Earlier in November, Ondas announced it was acquiring Sentrycs in a $225 million deal, an Israeli counter-UAS company whose Cyber-over-RF technology enables operators to detect, identify, and seize control of hostile drones at the protocol level. That acquisition followed a string of deals involving local robotics, optics, and mine-detection companies, including Apeiro, SPO, and 4M Defense. Ondas also purchased Israeli companies Airobotics and Iron Drone in 2023.
The addition of Roboteam pushes Ondas deeper into the ground-robotics market at a moment when militaries are racing to field remote and autonomous systems across the front lines. Roboteam’s tactical unmanned ground vehicles, deployed by militaries in more than 30 countries, including the U.S. Department of War, the U.S. Marine Corps, and Israel’s Ministry of Defense, are built for explosive-ordnance disposal, intelligence gathering, hazardous-environment missions, and perimeter security. These systems were in extensive operational use by the IDF in the recent war in Gaza.
At the center of Roboteam’s portfolio is Roboteam HUB, an AI-enabled command-and-control platform designed to merge disparate robotic assets into a single operational picture. Ondas expects that capability to strengthen its “system-of-systems” strategy, unifying aerial, ground, and intelligence platforms under one architecture for defense, homeland-security, and public-safety customers.
The company said Roboteam brings a mature sales pipeline, thanks to existing deployments with Tier-1 militaries, and projected that the acquisition will contribute $3-4 million in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2025 and at least $30 million in 2026.
The deal also extends Ondas’ rapid ascent as one of the most active foreign buyers in Israel’s defense-tech sector. Sentrycs gave the company a foothold in one of the most strategically sensitive domains of modern warfare: the counter-drone market. Its patented protocol-layer interception technology allows authorities to track and seize rogue drones with precision, without jamming, spoofing, or creating electromagnetic interference.
