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TOKA wall-climbing inspection robots
Wheeled robots stick to steel with magnets and crawl over boilers, tanks and ship hulls carrying ultrasonic and other sensors.
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- Height
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Why it matters
Magnetic-wheeled robots that climb steel walls to map corrosion, helping Gecko become a robotics unicorn in 2025.
Real-world use
Customers include the US Navy, US Air Force, ADNOC and Siemens; a $71 million Navy deal targets fleet readiness.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Gecko RoboticsCompany · founded 2013 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United StatesY Combinator (2016); $7M round in 2018 from Founders Fund and others; later rounds not verified here
Public attention
How much public attention TOKA wall-climbing inspection robots gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Supervised. Field operators deploy the crawlers and watch progress on tablets while the robots crawl and scan surfaces.
- Actuators & motors
- Wall-climbing crawlers using proprietary magnetic adhesion on tanks, boilers and pipelines
- Sensors & vision
- Ultrasonic thickness sensors, lasers and other sensors for structural-integrity data
- AI & software
- Cantilever data platform combining robot inspection data for asset decisions; machine learning analytics; collaboration with NVIDIA on robot security announced September 2026
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Where it is sold or used
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Customers and pilots
- US Navy, US Air Force, Siemens, ADNOC, Mitsubishi, Georgia-Pacific, Marathon, HF Sinclair; partners Anduril and Trident
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Gecko signs $71 million US Navy deal
Gecko listed a $71 million Navy agreement aimed at cutting ship maintenance delays and lifting fleet readiness.
Gecko Robotics - Gecko Robotics raises $7 million
TechCrunch reported Gecko's raise from Founders Fund and others for magnetic wall-climbing inspection robots priced around $50,000-100,000.
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Sources
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