Our Vision
Our vision is to create practical, mobile robot solutions for personal, business, and government use. We are committed to deliver products of high quality that are safe, cost effective, and gratifying for all stakeholders.
About Us
GeckoSystems Intl. Corp. (GOSY.PK) is a leading developer of mobile service robots (MSR's) based in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Now entering their fourteenth year of business (Video & Pictorial History), the Company specializes in supplying AI mobile robot solutions for safety, security and service™. Their suite of MSR hardware and software (BaseBot™) technologies enable MSR's to automatically self-navigate the home or workplace using proprietary sense and avoid technologies for reliable, unattended collision avoidance while patrolling and/or seeking preset destinations.
The Company's suite of BaseBot technologies in the CareBot™ MSR include: GeckoImager™ (a new type of optical range finding and vision system), GeckoSPIO™ (an advanced networkable, high I/O count robot controller board), GeckoOrient™ (a sensor fused positioning subsystem), GeckoNav™ (an AI centric automatic, self-navigation software), GeckoZap™ (a test, calibrate, and debug software suite), and GeckoChat™ (a verbal interaction system that enables timely verbal reminders, monologues, dialogues, and custom robotic personalities). Battery life is 10-20 hours.
The Company is seeking to partner in the professional healthcare, commercial security, and defense industry marketplaces.
Why "GeckoSystems"?
In many parts of the world, an important household member is the pet gecko. These fully autonomous, highly mobile, fast, and friendly lizards satisfy a critical function by keeping the insect population to a minimum. Frequently, the gecko performs this same beneficial service in commercial environments. Their surprising speed, grace and fluidity of movement, while preforming timely, utilitarian tasks safely around the home and workplace, exemplifies our company's capability to develop and manufacture mobile service robots with high levels of automatic self-navigation, utility, and cost-effectiveness. By carefully selecting the name GeckoSystems, the co-founders characterized their vision of creating "mobile robot solutions for safety, security, and service."
Our People
Executive Officers
The Company's management team provides the real-world working skills necessary to implement a winning strategy and to maximize the shareholder's return. The following are brief biographies of the management team members.
R. Martin Spencer, BS, MBA
President / CEO / Chairman of the Board
Since founding GeckoSystems over nineteen years ago, Mr. Spencer has led the invention of a comprehensive and complementary suite of robotic hardware and software (BaseBot) technologies. The Company's suite of mobile robot solutions include: GeckoTactileShroud™, GeckoImager™, GeckoSPIO™, GeckoOrient™, GeckoTrak™, GeckoZap™, GeckoChat™ and GeckoNav™, the flagship product. These systems, and others, comprise the CareBot™ MSR 3.8.
Mr. Spencer was instrumental in the successful design and development of the first walking, bipedal robot in the world, "CURBi," (for Clemson University Robotic Biped) introduced in 1987. He also intimately supported robotics R&D at Georgia Tech, University of Florida, IBM, Texas Instruments, etc. His professional involvement in robotics started in the mid 1960's when he began studies as an electrical engineering student. He grew a single consumer electronics store to four as Vice President and General Manager. His B.S. is in mathematics with minors in physics and marketing. Later, he earned an Executive MBA from Georgia State University.
Elaine G. Spencer, BS
Secretary / Treasurer
Ms. Spencer brings over 30 years of Business Administration expertise to GeckoSystems, Inc. Ms. Spencer is responsible for managing the daily operations of the company. This includes corporate communications, assisting with facilities management, and maintaining all corporate records.
Prior to joining GeckoSystems, Ms. Spencer's career includes 15 years of responsible administrative positions with California State University - Northridge and Southwestern University. Prior to that she was in the airline industry working with companies such as Delta Air Lines and Pratt and Whitney Aircraft. Ms. Spencer has a B.S. in Psychology from Georgia State University with a minor in Management.
Our History
2011 Photos of the 2011 Rockdale Team Tour, upgrading of an Imasen wheelchair, and videos from a demo at a Marriott conference center.
2010 First videos of 2010 are two views of a CareBot™ in Elder Care Trials tracking a care receiver.
2009 Coverage of our mobile service robot conference entitled "Mobile Robots in Motion" held November 4-5.
2008 We built our second generation GeckoSPIO™ which furthered our ability to do sensor fusion across multiple systems and subsystems. One of our electrical engineers built up "Carole" CareBot™ prototype that carried all the hardward needed to support GeckoNav™ and GeckoChat™ on board.
2007 We publicly demonstrated one of our CareBots™ in "Darth Vader" garb with a rasping, hissing voice while patrolling tirelessly through crowds of folks at Dragon*Con. And we built our first generation, GeckoSPIO™.
2006 While at Laselle College in Boston, Martin Spencer was an invited speaker and presented "MSR's in an Eldercare Setting" to the "Technology Trends in Eldercare" organized by the administration of Laselle. This response of the attendees was very favorable. One of the videos on the front page of this website was recorded at Laselle to illustrate what "loose crowd" level of autonomy is.
2005 We demostrated our new shroud and electronics, by going to gen3 in our CareBot™ 3.4 MSR product line development. We have the logo developed we are still using. Some of the pictures and videos here are from our public demonstrations of our "loose crowd" level of autonomy at the Robotics and Vision Show in Chicago.
2004 This is the year we got a mold sculpted for a vastly improved look over the previous "garbage can" assembly... And we evolved our logo a bit, too.
2003 With a low cost Toshiba laptop on board, we start demonstrating publicly at places like coin shops, department stores, etc. We also got our first, commercially leased lab space in Conyers, GA. We called "garbage can" shrouded CareBot™ "Emily" after the wife of our then Chairman of the Board, Edmond L. Lamb.
2002 We went to a laser cut frame version of our gen4 frame. We went to the locomotion drive motors we presently use and further refined the sensor fusion system of the CompoundedSensorArray™.
2001 This year we developed "Bertha" our most advanced mobile service robot. "She" had an LED face with pan/tilt for the video camera embedded in her head. She was featured once in a Channel 46 newscast. As you can see, we were still running "brains off board" and experimenting with adding vacuuming capability.
2000 Using our fourth generation frame, we worked on shroud design and further development of our CompoundedSensorArray™ technologies.
1999 We now had our fourth generation frame and we worked on shroud designs. We called our early prototypes "PCR's" since that stood for Personal Computer Robots. At that time we did not realize that it would take 3 or more PC's to have a "complete" personal robot.
1998 Our second prototype frame was "still born" and never achieved any movement, and certainly no level of autonomy whatsoever. However, our third early prototype, BaseBot™ "P3B2", did achieve "scanning sonar" only level of autonomy. This was our first sensor fusion development. Also depicted is an early sonar and IR range finder prototype "CompoundedSensorArray™."
1997 Our first prototype mobile robot was differential drive with "whiskers" for touching walls and obstacles. We ran this mobile robot with "brains off board" and hence proved that a mobile robot did not have to have all the computation done on board for any level of autonomy to be achieved. We also learned of the need for a testing a calibration utility we now call GeckoZap™ for the development of our first mobile robot controller boards.