Gecko Robotics

Gecko Robotics was founded in 2013 by Jake Loosararian and Troy Demmer and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with offices in Houston, Boston, New York City, Washington DC and Abu Dhabi. The company was created to replace manual, sampling-based inspection of boilers, tanks, pipes and hulls, where crews collect only a fraction of readings and structural risk stays hidden between shutdowns.

Its wall-climbing TOKA robots carry ultrasonic sensors and cameras to capture dense thickness and surface data across an asset, and that data feeds Cantilever, the company’s software platform for asset health and predictive analytics. The combined robotics-and-AI offering, marketed as AIR, is used across defense, oil and gas, power, pulp and paper, steel and mining; published customers and partners include the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, ADNOC, Georgia Pacific and HF Sinclair. Gecko raised a USD 125 million Series D in June 2025 at a USD 1.25 billion valuation.

1. TOKA climbing robots: magnetic-crawling platforms carrying ultrasonic sensors and cameras over vertical and curved surfaces.

2. Cantilever platform: turns inspection scans into asset health models, degradation trends and maintenance priorities.

3. AIR offering: bundles robotic data capture with AI analytics for critical infrastructure operators.

4. Aerial scans: drone-based capture complements ground robots for structures that cannot be crawled.

5. Sector coverage: defense, oil and gas, power, pulp and paper, steel and mining.

6. Institutional backing: USD 125 million Series D closed in June 2025 at a USD 1.25 billion valuation.