Valuing safety first, Gecko Robotics was co-founded by Jake Loosararian with the intent to help save lives that are at risk when inspecting boilers and tanks at industries. Gecko Robotics is a company that founded in 2016 and has since then grown from 15 employee to 50 and a net worth of $7 million continues to expand more. There are multiple Grove City College Alumni that are involved in the company such as Loosararian, Ian Miller, Josh Moore, Alex Watt, and potentially more. These men took the core values, incredibly devoted work ethic, and pursuit for solving problems that Grove City College engraved in them during their college years and applied it directly to the company.
The services that are offered by Gecko Robotics are boiler inspections, tank inspections, and scrubber inspections. The boiler inspections offer the services to detect when degradation forms in water walls from ash and soot – blower erosion graphitization, under-deposit corrosion, thermal fatigue cracking, and creep damage. With the cutting-edge technology, the robotic inspector can gather thickness data around the complete surface of each Water Wall Tube. Inspecting tanks can be catastrophic and life threatening which is why consistent scheduled inspections are the key to preventing tank failure. Finally, the scrubbers used give ultrasound and visual inspections so robots can inspect both the cones and vertical walls to identify patterns of wall thinning.
Reviews from industries that have used Gecko Robotics have only positive words to say about the company. Companies that would could have had a detrimental loss or an outage that would have impacted the productivity are indebted to the services for their safety, reliability and technology. Even Steve Westly, entrepreneur and CFO of the State of California, and other successful entrepreneurs are investing in Gecko Robotics because they see the growth that is to come for the company.
I loved this. I think it is so inspiring as students at Grove City to hear of the great success of our alumni. Also, just the reviews of their company alone speak to their character as individuals as well as the values they have instilled in the company as students at Grove City. The outside investment opportunity here is so young and I am excited to see where they go in years to come.
It is super encouraging to see how Grove City Students have been able to make such a significant venture. Also the fact they can have a redemptive cool way of looking at technology and how we can use it for the better rather than the worse.
This company sounds both innovative and valuable. It’s amazing that there are so many Grove City College alumni who have a hand in the success of this technologically advanced company. Knowing the work ethic that Grove City instills in its students, it’s certainly no surprise that Gecko Robotics is growing at a high rate and gaining high level investors! Very inspiring!
I have to agree with the previous comments, that recent Grove City graduates are already doing that well is pretty inspiring. I now may even be willing to consider how ill pay off student loans! Pretty good choice for a blog post topic.