Facts

• Segment: Inspection
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2013
• Website: https://www.geckorobotics.com

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Commercial
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Articles
• Sources

Summary

Gecko Robotics builds inspection robots and AI software for critical infrastructure. Its systems collect wall-thickness, corrosion and condition data from assets such as power plants, ships, tanks and industrial facilities, helping operators maintain infrastructure with better digital records.

Market context

Gecko sits in a meaningful part of the robotics market that is easy to undercount: inspection and asset intelligence for critical infrastructure. The company has expanded beyond industrial maintenance into defense and naval readiness, with growing traction across military and industrial asset fleets. Gecko Robotics builds and deploys robotic inspection systems and asset-intelligence software for critical infrastructure, including robots that collect data across industrial and defense assets.

Facts

• Website: https://www.geckorobotics.com
• HQ: Pittsburgh, United States
• Founded: 2013
• Segment: Inspection
• Known funding rounds: 2

Funding

• 2025-06-12 - Series D - $125M - Gecko Robotics raises Series D at $1.25 billion valuation led by Cox Enterprises - source: geckorobotics.com
• 2023-12-05 - Series C extension - $100M - Gecko Robotics raises $100 million Series C extension to expand its defense business - source: geckorobotics.com

Investors

• Founders Fund - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-12-05 - latest 2025-06-12
• US Innovative Technology Fund - Participant - Vc - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2023-12-05 - latest 2025-06-12
• Cox Enterprises - Lead - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-12
• XN - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-12
• Y Combinator - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-06-12

Commercial

1 commercial event; 1 contract award; 1 named customer; $54M disclosed obligated value; $71M disclosed ceiling value; latest event 2026-03-17

• 2026-03-17 - Contract award - Gecko Robotics secures U.S. Navy IDIQ contract for robotic ship inspection and maintenance - U.S. Navy / GSA - $54M obligated - source: geckorobotics.com

Robotic inspection and asset intelligence for critical infrastructure

Gecko Robotics combines inspection robots, nondestructive testing and software for critical infrastructure. Its market context is asset integrity: using robots and data to understand the condition of industrial systems that are expensive, dangerous or difficult to inspect manually.

• Target environment: Power plants, manufacturing facilities, military infrastructure, energy assets, tanks, boilers, pipelines and other critical industrial systems.
• Deployment model: Robotic inspection and software platform model. Gecko uses robots to collect asset data and software to turn inspection results into infrastructure intelligence.
• Customer context: Industrial asset owners, energy companies, defence organizations, manufacturers and infrastructure operators that need better visibility into asset health and maintenance risk.
• Workflow context: Nondestructive testing, wall and surface inspection, thickness measurement, asset mapping, maintenance planning, reliability analysis and infrastructure risk management.
• Commercial maturity: Gecko has commercial maturity in industrial inspection and asset intelligence, with public customer and sector evidence across energy, manufacturing, defence and critical infrastructure.
• Market position: Gecko sits in the industrial inspection and asset-health robotics lane. Its differentiation is the combination of robotic data collection and software for infrastructure decision-making.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on inspection accuracy, site access, customer trust, integration with maintenance workflows, regulatory requirements, cost of downtime and the ability to turn inspection data into…
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes robotic inspection, nondestructive testing and asset intelligence for critical infrastructure.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-05-21 - Capability - Gecko Robotics integrates Ouster Rev8 lidar into Cantilever inspection workflows - Ouster announced that Gecko Robotics is leveraging Rev8 digital lidar sensors to integrate new data layers int…
• 2026-03-17 - Contract Award - Gecko Robotics secures U.S. Navy IDIQ contract for robotic ship inspection and maintenance - The U.S. Navy and GSA awarded Gecko Robotics a five-year IDIQ contract with a $71 million ceiling
• 2025-11-02 - Partnership - ADNOC and Gecko Robotics sign three agreements to accelerate AI, robotics, and workforce training across energy operations - ADNOC and Gecko Robotics announced three agreements covering deploy…
• 2025-07-15 - Partnership - BPMI and Gecko Robotics Partner to Enhance U.S. Navy Component Production - • BPMI partnered with Gecko Robotics to introduce advanced manufacturing technology for U.S.
• 2025-06-12 - Funding - Gecko Robotics raises Series D at $1.25 billion valuation led by Cox Enterprises - Gecko Robotics announced a Series D financing that valued the company at $1.25 billion.
• 2025-04-16 - Partnership - Gecko Robotics and L3Harris Technologies collaborate on XR solution for aircraft maintenance - Gecko Robotics and L3Harris Technologies announced a collaboration on an extended-reality mainten…
• 2025-02-27 - Partnership - NAES and Gecko Robotics announce $100 million agreement to deploy AI and robotics across the U.S. power sector - NAES and Gecko Robotics announced a $100 million agreement focused on deploying…
• 2023-12-05 - Funding - Gecko Robotics raises $100 million Series C extension to expand its defense business - Gecko Robotics announced a $100 million extension of its Series C financing, bringing the total Series C rais…

Operations / Deployments

• 2025-07-15 - Partnership - BPMI and Gecko Robotics Partner to Enhance U.S. Navy Component Production - • BPMI partnered with Gecko Robotics to introduce advanced manufacturing technology for U.S.
• 2025-02-27 - Partnership - NAES and Gecko Robotics announce $100 million agreement to deploy AI and robotics across the U.S. power sector - NAES and Gecko Robotics announced a $100 million agreement focused on deploying…

Team

• Jake Loosararian - Co-founder and CEO

Supply chain relationships

• Ouster - Rev8 digital lidar supplier - Ouster supplies digital lidar used by Gecko Robotics inspection robots and Cantilever asset-intelligence workflows.

Relationships

• partner - Gecko Robotics has a public partnership relationship with BPMI.
• Energy sector partner - Three agreements on deployment, AI/robotics collaboration, and workforce training across ADNOC energy operations (Gecko Robotics).
• Collaboration party (ADNOC Gas context) - Named in ADNOC–Gecko agreements package alongside ADNOC Gas deployment scope (Gecko Robotics).
• Lead investor - Led Gecko Robotics Series D at $1.25B valuation (Gecko announcement).
• Investor - Participated in Gecko Robotics Series D (Gecko announcement).
• Power sector deployment partner - $100M agreement to deploy AI and robotics across U.S. power sector (Gecko announcement).
• Defense aerospace / maintenance partner - XR collaboration for aircraft maintenance inspection and sustainment (Gecko announcement).
• Naval industrial base production partner - Partnership to accelerate U.S. Navy component production with AI and robotics (Gecko official).
• Investor - Board / investor participation in Gecko Series C extension tranche (Gecko official).
• customer - Gecko Robotics $71 million Navy IDIQ for robotic ship inspection and maintenance.

Context tags

• Industrial facilities - Customer Environment - Gecko serves critical industrial and infrastructure asset environments.
• Industrial inspection robotics - Peer Group - Gecko uses AI and robotics for critical infrastructure inspection and maintenance.
• Wall-climbing inspection robotics - Peer Group - Gecko robots are reported climbing hulls and crawling through ballast tanks to collect structural and material data.
• Industrial asset inspection - Workflow - Gecko robotics are used for asset integrity, maintenance and critical infrastructure inspection.
• Structural inspection data - Capability - Gecko collects structural and material data through robotic inspection.
• Robot OEM - Stack Layer - Gecko operates robotic tools as part of its inspection system.
• Defence customers - Customer Environment - Reuters reported U.S. Navy/Pacific Fleet use of Gecko robots and software.
• Inspection data analytics - Capability - Gecko combines robotic inspection data with AI-powered software.
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - Gecko has public customer and contract activity for robotic inspection.

Customers and deployments

• Contract Value Usd - $71 million IDIQ contract - 2026-03-17 - U.S. Navy - robotic ship inspection - Gecko Robotics secured a $71 million U.S. Navy IDIQ contract for robotic ship inspection and maintenance. - source post…

Articles

• 2026-04-06 - Robots are getting good at the jobs humans hate inspecting - The strongest commercial cases are often specialist systems built for hard environments, repeated tasks, and clear operating value. - Korthos: /r…
• 2025-06-12 - Gecko Robotics is making inspection robots a data system for critical infrastructure - A $125M Series D followed years of wall-climbing robot work, Navy use, Cantilever software and defense maintenance depl…