U.S Navy Uses Wall-Climbing Robots That Promise To Inspect Ship Hulls Up To 50 Times Faster

The U.S Navy has signed a $300 million deal with Gecko Robotics to use its AI-powered robots for identifying maintenance and structural issues on its ships.

The company has claimed that the robots can save around $8 million in repair costs per vessel for the navy. This means ships would be able to rejoin service faster than they would if traditional inspection methods were employed.

Gecko Robotics said that the wall-climbing robots can inspect a ship 50 times faster than a human team could.

The robots can identify the most minute cracks and corrosion on the hull while reducing maintenance period from months to just days. They have highly sensitive sensors to collect a vast amount of information.

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