Industry verticals 

Power and Robotics 

Problem 

Expensive, unreliable and dangerous infrastructure inspections result in numerous avoidable deaths and injuries every year.  

Solution 

The Gecko Robotics semi-autonomous robot performs infrastructure inspections in the the power and related industries. 

TEam 

Jake Loosararian: CEO 

Troy Demmer: COO

Ian Miller: CTO 

Josh Moore: Mechanical Engineer 

Yizhu Gu: Mechanical Engineer 

website 

www.geckorobotics.com

Business Model 

Develop robots and use them to provide inspections as a service 

Stage of development 

TRL 3: Proof of Concept 

awards and grants to date

• $10K Ben Franklin Institute 
• $10K Cisco IoE Innovation Challenge Prize 
• $50K DOE Clean Energy Prize 
• $10K Wells Fargo Clean Tech Prize 
• $10K Shell Technology Ventures Energy Prize 

3-6 month milestones 

• Complete 3rd generation robot for wide scale commercial deployment 
• Secure IP and file provisional patents 
• Line up customer jobs 

contact 

Troy Demmer at tdemmer@tepper.cmu.edu