Jake Loosararian probably wasn't thinking about billion-dollar valuations when he started building robots in his college dorm room twelve years ago. He was just a student who saw a problem that seemed too obvious to ignore: the bridges we drive on, the power plants that keep our lights on, and the military vessels protecting our coasts were all aging, and nobody really knew how fast they were deteriorating.
Fast forward to today, and that dorm room startup just hit unicorn status with a $1.25 billion valuation. While Silicon Valley obsesses over the latest AI chatbot or social media algorithm, Loosararian's company, Gecko Robotics, has been quietly building something far less flashy but infinitely more crucial robots that crawl through nuclear power plants, swim around Navy ships, and c
Gecko Robotics Reaches Unicorn Status With Robots That Drives Infrastructure Intelligence
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The company's client roster reads like a who's who of critical infrastructure operators: the U.S. Navy, L3Harris Technologies, NAES
