Founders: Jake Loosararian (CEO), Troy Demmer
Spear: 2013
Headquarters: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Funding: $ 222 million
Assessment: $ 633 million (Pitchbook)
Key technologies: Artificial, robotics, digital twins, internet of objects
Industry: Industrial
Previous appearances on the list of disruptors 50: 1 (n ° 42 in 2024)
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Thousands of American military interviews are seated around the world and are waiting to be deployed if necessary. But ensuring that the fleet, which ages more and more, is ready for the moment becomes more and more complex, expensive and takes time.
Like Air Force Chief of Staff, David Allvin said it during the AFA Warfare symposium of the Air and Space Force Association in March, this oldest fleet of planes finds “new ways interesting to break”.
Ensure that critical infrastructure – whether planes and battleships or gas refineries and power plants – works not only optimally but also proactively things that could break in the future has become one of the main priorities for organizations in a variety of public and private sectors.
This is a challenge that Gecko Robotics, based in Pittsburgh, increases. The fleet of robots assisted by Gecko can analyze thousands of different crucial assets, take advantage of the analysis and algorithms to provide new data and information on the health and conviviality of these assets, which ultimately reduces costs and time of arrest.
The American navy has expanded its partnership with Gecko Robotics in September, noting that it had increased the use of Gecko’s work on its fleet of 400% in 2024. Marine data showed that robots had helped reduce delivery hours and working hours, as well as to identify the faults that could have been missed by traditional inspection methods. According to the Navy and Gecko, for an asset of the navy, traditional methods have captured less than 100 data points on key vital defense structures while the Gecko platform captured more than 4.2 million.
Gecko has forged a new partnership with the Defense Entrepreneur L3harris technologies In April to help maintain military planes around the world. Rather than duty that individual inspectors take hours and potentially days to travel on each plane to find faults, a gecko operator can pilot a drone around each distance plane that collects high quality images, that Gecko software can come together in a digital twin of this plane. With this 3D model, inspectors and service providers can inspect that remote planes, allowing them to find the smallest bumps and defects around the world.
Gecko technology is increasingly used by a variety of industries that are also highly focused on reliability and efficiency such as energy and manufacturing. In February, Gecko signed an agreement of $ 100 million with NAEs, the largest electricity operator in the United States, which focuses on the modernization and optimization of power plants.
“The technological batteries that we built aggravate the value and the impact at the very moment when energy, manufacturing, minerals and defense are the exact markets where AI and robotics have the most incredible impacts,” said Jake Loosararian, the co-founder and CEO of Gecko Robotics, on the “Middle East CNBC access” in May. “Companies that adopt those the fastest – to become AI and robotics companies – are those that will win; those who will not have a very serious drop.”
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