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New platform will tackle AI’s biggest emerging risk: the autonomous control of systems
PITTSBURGH, PA — Sept. 28 — Gecko Robotics is collaborating with NVIDIA on the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, engineered to strengthen AI security throughout the full agent stack, including robotics.
Gecko builds with NVIDIA OpenShell software, part of the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, to explore how enforceable boundaries can keep AI-powered robots operating within human-defined permissions, helping establish the safeguards needed to deploy greater autonomy responsibly.
“As Jensen says, safety is an engineering problem not a legal one,” said Jake Loosararian, Co-founder and CEO of Gecko Robotics. “The idea that losing control of AI is inevitable is a dangerous excuse for inaction. We have a responsibility to build safeguards that keep AI within the boundaries humans set. What NVIDIA has built with their Open Agent Safety Platform, and Gecko is testing for robots, is confronting the risk before it reaches the physical world and helping ensure greater autonomy does not come at the expense of human control.”
The introduction of NVIDIA Agent Safety Platform follows recent security incidents which have shown that advanced agents can circumvent application-level controls to complete assigned tasks. Those failures have so far largely occurred within software. As AI agents increasingly direct robots, vehicles and industrial machinery, it is also important to bring security to agent systems that work in the real world. The collaboration provides governance and control across the software, hardware, computing infrastructure and robotic systems used by AI agents.
Gecko Robotics uses robots that can climb, crawl, fly and swim on the world’s most critical infrastructure, including for Fortune 100 companies in energy, oil and gas, or the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy to protect and optimize nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers. Gecko is using NVIDIA OpenShell for secure runtime boundaries that developers can use to define what actions systems can take, and what’s not permitted.
Gecko’s Komodo robot, a system deployed with the U.S. Navy, places an independent enforcement layer between the AI agent and the hardware. Put simply: the developer decides what Komodo should do; OpenShell ensures it stays within the rules.
Physical AI and robotics represent the next frontier of technology. Moving intelligence from software into machines also brings greater responsibility. Model-level safety alone is not enough. By building enforceable controls across the full technology stack, NVIDIA and Gecko are helping ensure the safeguards governing physical AI advance as quickly as the technology itself.
About Gecko Robotics
Gecko Robotics combines advanced robotics and AI-powered software to build, operate and modernize the world’s most critical infrastructure.
Using robots that climb, crawl, fly and swim, Gecko is able to collect an unprecedented amount of data on the built world, whether that’s with Fortune 100 companies in energy, oil and gas, and manufacturing sectors around the world, or the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy to protect and optimize nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers.
Through our AI-powered platform, Cantilever, Gecko transforms the massive datasets collected by robots into actionable insights that enable data-driven, evidence-based decisions on structures, delivering an ROI for customers.
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