Noah Clark Jr. has reportedly extended its contract with GeckoSystems and will continue to help it obtain the necessary finances to initiate manufacturing processes of its personal robot, CareBot, beginning with the first at home evaluation trials. GeckoSystems is involved in providing solutions to the Mobile Service Robot (MSR) segment; it has in the past provided some cutting edge applications developed with the adage, “Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service.”

The company has been able to take the leading edge from other global competitors in the Pacific Rim like Honda (ASIMO), Toyota (Partner Robots), Fujitsu (Frontech’s Enon), Sanyo (FLATTHRU), NEC (PaPeRo), Toshiba (ApriAlpha, ApriAttenda), Samsung, Hitachi (News - Alert) (EMIEW), Matsushita (HOSPI), Mitsubishi (Wakamuru), among others, in Europe including Robosoft (robuLAB10), Robowatch, Dyson and Husqvarna, and also in the U.S. like iRobot (CiCi), Mobile Robots (PeopleBot), RoboDynamics (MILO), Evolution Robotics among others.

Many of its global competitors are still looking at developing their first robot trials, whereas Gecko has been able to make an official announcement regarding the same. Apart from major global corporations, personal robot research and development has also been undertaken by members of the academic community, including prestigious U.S. Universities like the MIT (News - Alert) (Nexi, Kismet), Georgia Tech, Stanford Tech, Stanford University, UCLA, Carnegie Mellon University (Flo), University of Michigan and Virginia Tech. Even they have not been able to reach a stage where their offerings can be made available for in-home trials.

In a release, Martin Spencer, president and CEO of GeckoSystems, said “For 12 years, we have worked to invent and assemble all the required hardware and software technologies determined by our market research needed for a truly cost effective and utilitarian personal companion robot, the CareBot. We are very pleased to have Mr. Clark's capable assistance in advising us in his consulting role to enable us to take our first product to the next stage in the execution of our business plan's sales and marketing strategies.”

With the company hoping to succeed in raising the requisite funding for commencing manufacturing operation of its CareBot, it hopes to get a better picture on how these trials will be conducted. These trials will be the first that are completely human rated.

GeckoSystems’ currently offers a repertoire of “mobile robot solutions for safety, security and service.” Technologies developed by the company include GeckoNav, GeckoChat, GeckoTrak, GeckoSheduler, GeckoOrient, GeckpZap, GeckoSPIO, CompoundedSensorArray, GeckoSuper, GeckoProx, GeckoMotor Controller and GeckoTactileShroud, among others.