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Our world demands critical infrastructure be reliable. Inspection and maintenance are mainstays in achieving this outcome. As the leader in robot-enabled ultrasonics, Gecko Robotics delivers comprehensive inspections giving an unprecedented understanding of asset health. Skilled NDT inspectors wielding best-in-class equipment and supported by cloud-based processing is The Gecko Advantage.

Gecko Robotics’ TOKA series robots climb walls at speeds up to 60 feet per minute. This time lapse of three robotic crawlers inspecting a waterwall of a pulverized coal boiler unit while taking thickness measurements on each boiler tube.

Rapid Ultrasonic Gridding (aka RUG) is an innovative inspection process of creating data-rich visual grid maps that identify areas where corrosion and other damage mechanisms have caused wall-thinning. When incorporated into your RBI program, Rapid Ultrasonic Gridding can significantly enhance your ability to visualize the mechanical health of your assets, to set inspection frequency and to project asset life.

Introducing Gecko Vision. Presenting inspected assets in full three dimensions, showing your entire refinery at a glance. Diving into specific refinery assets, such as piping, the overlaid ultrasonic thickness data points are provided for by Gecko’s robots. Clicking on each asset, such as this tank

With today's technology, it's incredibly difficult to reliably inspect and maintain large assets like aircraft, missile silos, and storage tanks. At Gecko Robotics, we've made it our mission to solve this problem. Our technology and platforms are able to generate digital versions of assets with large volumes of data in real time - allowing users to have advanced analytical data and visualization on how and when to make critical repairs.

Gecko Robotics perform an ultrasonic and visual inspection on piping assets. Our teams can inspect piping assets while they’re still in service, and transform this data into a 3D deliverable thickness map that’s populated as the robots crawl.

Gecko’s EVA bot uses laser profilometry and cameras to inspect tube damage. EVA can complete inspection 10x faster than traditional methods, and go places humans cannot. With EVA, our teams provide safe, high-quality inspections that processes data in an easy to understand way.

For a 1000MW plant in North Carolina, getting an inspection done on ten bituminous coal silos to help identify risks of failure was critical for maintenance. Because of coverage, traditional inspections could not fulfill their needs. Therefore, Gecko Robotics was selected to perform a robotic inspection during the plant’s downtime.

Gecko Robotics can inspect sprayer dryer absorbers without the need for costly scaffolding. Our robots capture thickness data at 1 feet per second, which decreases downtime and gathers better, more in depth data that reflects height, thickness, and angle. Gecko’s teams inspected the full SDA in only 2 short shifts.

This video shows one of Gecko’s robots climbing up and down a tank, collecting thickness data as it goes, and populating this data in a presentable, 3D thickness map.

Here, we see a Gecko Robotics inspector guiding one of our inspection robots as it performs non-destructive testing on the outside of a propane tank. Note how our inspector shifts the robot to avoid obstacles.

Gecko's robots can climb high! During an inspection at Hoosier energy, our robots climbed a record 120 linear feet per run as they performed UT and visual inspection on Hoosier’s pulverized coal boiler.

Gecko’s robots performed visual and ultrasonic inspection on 250MW PC boiler, taking data at each inch and analyzing visuals to reveal defects. Our teams inspected the boiler in 5 fewer days than traditional methods, producing 1000 times more data.

In this video, Gecko’s EVA 2.0 robot inspects evaporator assemblies within Warrior Run’s fluidized bed heat exchanger. EVA could reach spaces as tight as 2 inches, and depths of 20 feet, using her laser to measure tube loss. EVA inspected 34 evaporator assemblies in only 4 short days.

Gecko’s teams performed visual and UT inspection on the lower slope of Southern Co.’s PC boiler. They collected thickness data at every inch, and inspected 8 tubes at a time. Overall, they checked 1000 tubes at 3 angles in only 2 short shifts, and Gecko Vision provided the client with a 3D thickness map of this data.

In this video, Gecko’s robots gathered 30,000 individual thickness points across 76 tubes in an asset in 2015. Comparatively, traditional inspection methods only gathered 2,500 points, which took 5 times as long.

This video runs down Gecko Robotics inspection service in full, describing why assets need routine inspections, and how our robots gather more in-depth data in a safer way than traditional non-destructive testing.

Gecko Robotics provided AES Warrior Run with a Rapid Ultrasonic Gridding and visual inspection of their Coal Bunkers and Evaporator Panels.

Side by side comparison of traditional, handheld non destructive testing, and Gecko’s faster, wall climbing robots.

Gecko Robotics’ TOKA series robots climb walls at speeds up to 60 feet per second. This time-lapse of three robotic crawlers inspect a waterwall of a pulverized coal boiler unit while taking thickness measurements on each boiler tube.

Here, we see two robots working to inspect a boiler’s tubes. Two robots are better than one, as they increase inspection speed and decrease downtime by providing full coverage data that reflects height, thickness, tube number, and angle.

In this video, one of Gecko’s inspection robots scans the circumference of a propane tank.

In this video, Gecko Robotics Inspection Team performs ultrasonic testing on a large diesel tank, gathering data from the top to the bottom.

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