Gecko integrated inspection stack
Gecko Robotics
Gecko is hardest to displace where the customer is buying a full maintenance decision loop, not a robot rental. The robot gathers dense wall thickness and visual data on hard to reach steel surfaces, Cantilever turns that raw scan into corrosion maps and remaining life estimates, and Gecko field teams deliver the inspection in a format plant and naval teams can act on immediately. Replacing that stack means rebuilding specialized hardware, sensor workflows, analytics, and onsite operating know how at the same time.
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The lock in starts with workflow. Gecko teams arrive with operators and robots, scan assets in hours, and feed data into Cantilever for risk maps, repair planning, and capital scheduling. Once a site has time series inspection history inside that system, switching means losing trend data and retraining maintenance teams on a new process.
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Point solutions usually cover only one layer. Boston Dynamics sells Spot as a sensing platform for inspections and provides services and training, while ANYbotics focuses on autonomous inspection robots and software for oil and gas sites. Gecko is more specialized around magnetic crawling on vertical steel and ties that hardware directly into asset life analysis and engineering work.
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Building this internally is difficult because the hard part is not just the robot body. Gecko’s TOKA family combines magnetic mobility, multiple NDT sensors such as phased array ultrasound and eddy current, real time data piping into Cantilever, and field crews who know how to run inspections in boilers, tanks, ships, and hazardous zones.
This model is heading toward a broader asset operating system. As Cantilever expands from defect detection into repair planning, procurement, and quality assurance, more of the maintenance budget and daily workflow can sit inside one platform, which should make Gecko look less like an inspection vendor and more like core infrastructure software with robots attached.