#27: Industrial Robots, Smart Infrastructure, Predictive Maintenance, Reinforcing America’s $5T Backbone, and the Future of Robotics w/ Gecko Robotics Co-founder Troy Demmer
The future of industrial robotics. In it we cover turning the physical world into data, robots that climb, fly, swim, AI’s ability to predict failures, and America’s $5T aging infrastructure problem.
Troy Demmer is Co-founder of Gecko Robotics, who use a fleet of advanced robots and AI software to help government and heavy industry maintain and manage their critical infrastructure. From navy vessels to power plants to dams, Gecko collects data on and delivers insights across over 500,000 of the worlds most important and critical infrastructure. It has developed a digital layer of intelligence over the built world to improve performance, prevent breakage and failures, and increasingly predict how an asset will behave in the future. The company has raised over $220M from top investors including Founders Fund and US Innovative Technology Fund. Gecko’s co-founder and Chief Product Officer is Troy Demmer. A graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, Troy was previously in the healthcare industry working at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center before launching his first startup 360Showings, which 3D rendered homes for the real estate market. Along with his work at Gecko Troy also runs his own venture firm, First Order Fund, which invests in early stage startups building moats using data.
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