Gecko Robotics has landed $40
million in financing as it looks to build an additional 40 robots over the next year to meet what
the company sees as growing demand for its safety and infrastructure monitoring
services.
“We are growing fast solving critical
infrastructure problems that affect our lives, and can even save lives,” says Jake Loosararian, Gecko Robotics’ 28-year-old co-founder
and chief executive officer, in a statement. “At our core, we are a
robot-enabled software company that helps stop life-threatening catastrophes.
We’ve developed a revolutionary way to use robots as an enabler to capture data
for predictability of infrastructure; reducing failure, explosions, emissions
and billions of dollars of loss each year.”
In the three years since
its launch in 2016, Gecko Robotics has managed to
grow from a small team of Pittsburgh robotics experts hailing from Carnegie
Mellon. Indeed, the company has added more than 100 new employees. The hiring
push has been largely around creating a team of qualified experts in particular
market segments who can operate the robots
that Gecko deploys to industrial work
sites.
No comments:
Post a Comment