{"id":13425,"date":"2018-09-03T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/gecko-robotics-raises-7m-for-boiler-inspection-robots\/"},"modified":"2018-09-03T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T18:01:00","slug":"gecko-robotics-raises-7m-for-boiler-inspection-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=13425","title":{"rendered":"Gecko Robotics Raises $7M for Boiler Inspection Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#ndt Y Combinator-backed Gecko Robotics has raised a $7 million A-round of financing for wall-climbing robots.<\/p>\n<p>Gecko\u2019s proprietary magnetic adhesion technology works much like the sticky foot of a gecko, allowing its robots to crawl up walls to inspect for damage along the way.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gecko, most plants must shut down at least once a year to check for damage to the boiler. To do these inspections crews install 150-foot scaffolds and climb up the walls in search of areas in need of repair. On top of t&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#ndt Y Combinator-backed Gecko Robotics has raised a $7 million A-round of financing for wall-climbing robots. Gecko\u2019s proprietary magnetic adhesion technology works much like the sticky foot of a gecko, allowing its robots to crawl up walls to inspect for damage along the way. According to Gecko, most plants must shut down at least once a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}