Gecko Robotics · working robot
Wall-climbing inspection robots
Pittsburgh-founded Gecko's robots cling to steel boilers, tanks and pipelines with magnetic adhesion and scan wall thickness with ultrasonic sensors. The company now sells its data platform, Cantilever, alongside the robots.
- Price
- —about $50,000-$100,000 per robot (TechCrunch, 2018)
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
Magnetic climbing robots that replaced scaffolding for ultrasonic inspection of power-plant boilers.
Real-world use
Working with several US power plants by 2016; later inspected ships and flight decks for the US Navy and Air Force.
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
#7 of 396 current machines in public attention.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
- about 150 units or vehicles reported by the maker or press (may be a company-wide total)
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Remote-controlled. Trained field operators drive the robots over steel surfaces with a joystick, usually on a tether, while sensors collect inspection data.
- Actuators & motors
- Magnetic wheels for climbing steel; vacuum adhesion on concrete and other non-magnetic surfaces
- AI & software
- Cantilever data platform; AI analysis of corrosion rate, remaining life and repair needs
- Other details
- Robots about the size of a rolling suitcase
Lineage
Every Gecko Robotics machine in order.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedabout $50,000-$100,000 per robot (TechCrunch, 2018)
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- About 150 robots operating at customer sites (2024)
- Customers and pilots
- US Navy, US Air Force, Siemens, ADNOC, Mitsubishi, Georgia-Pacific, Marathon, HF Sinclair, power plants
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Gecko signs $71M Navy deal
Gecko announced a $71 million agreement with the US Navy aimed at cutting ship maintenance delays.
Gecko Robotics - Gecko signs three ADNOC agreements
Gecko agreed with ADNOC on AI, robotics expansion and training in the UAE.
Gecko Robotics - Fortune profiles Gecko's founding
Fortune traced Gecko from a college project to a company valued above $600 million with about 150 robots in the field.
Fortune
Sources
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