U.S Navy To Deploy Wall-Climbing Robots Across Its Ships In The Pacific Fleet

Gecko Robotics was awarded a $71 million contract by the U.S Navy to build wall-climbing robots and AI systems for naval ships of the Pacific Fleet.

This is a one-of-a-kind contract granted to a robotics firm; however, it will improve efficiency manifold, per Navy officials.

These robots will be able to reach difficult places on board, such as hulls, ballast tanks and confined spaces; crawling or flying to collect data which will be analysed by the AI-powered platform Cantilever.

It will identify maintenance needs and areas that need urgent attention 50 times faster and more accurately than manual inspections, claims Gecko Robotics.

In a documented case, a single robot inspection of a flight deck saved the company’s client over 3 months of maintenance delays.

This deal also signals a rampant advancement of robot tech and its entry into the shipbuilding sector.

Gecko operates around 250 robots across commercial and government customers, and plans to build ⁠50 to 60 more in 2026.

According to the 5-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, the robotics company will work on 18 ships of the Pacific Fleet, including littoral combat ships, amphibious warships and destroyers with an initial award of up to $54 million.

The company said that it worked across the Navy’s surface fleet and on both Virginia and Columbia-class nuclear submarine programs.

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