Gecko Robotics TOKA Crawlers specs

Gecko Robotics (Pittsburgh, USA) Gecko Robotics TOKA Crawlers (1)

Service contract

AvailableNot programmableMagnetic wall climbingUltrasonic NDTRobots-as-a-serviceIndustrial

Weeks+Shipping: Service contract.

Remote control: Not possible. Operated by Gecko crews. Customers get data through Cantilever, not robot control.

Overview

Founded in 2013 by Jake Loosararian and Troy Demmer after a fatal manual boiler inspection, Gecko builds wall-climbing TOKA robots that map wall thickness and corrosion on power-plant boilers, tanks, pipelines and Navy ships. It joined Y Combinator in 2016 and reached a $1.25 billion valuation in June 2025. The robots are used only through Gecko's own service and software business.

Type: Crawling robot · Climbers & inspection crawlers
Maker: Gecko Robotics (Pittsburgh, USA)
Released: 2016
Price: Service contract
Status: Available
Best for: Professionals & labs
Programming: No programmability

Price and shipping

Deployed through Gecko's inspection services and Cantilever software. Robots are not sold as standalone products.

Shipping: Service contract. Not sold as hardware. Inspections are booked through Gecko's sales team.

Specifications

Category	Crawlers, snakes & climbers · Climbers & inspection crawlers
Released	2016
Country	USA
Availability	Available
Sales	Fleet of about 250 robots across all Gecko Robotics models (2026, estimate) Reuters via Yahoo Finance ↗
Programmability	No programmability
Built-in autonomy	Task-level · Carries out multi-step jobs on its own, such as inspections, deliveries or chores
LLM support	None · Operated only by Gecko crews, no robot API.
Best for	Professionals & labs
Vision sensors	Camera, Sonar / ultrasonic
Actuators	Unknown
Audio	No audio
Compute type	Proprietary / undisclosed
Remote control	Not programmable
Size	Not published
Locomotion	Magnetic-wheeled crawlers that climb steel boilers, tanks, pipes and ship hulls
Compute	Not published, data flows to the Cantilever AI platform
Camera	Cameras (details not published)
Sensors	Ultrasonic thickness arrays and other NDT sensors (details not published)
Runtime	Not published
Speed	Not published
SDK	None (data via Cantilever platform)