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Another notch in the partnership belt
Ouster is back with another robot-heavy collaboration, and this one has a clean little pitch: Gecko Robotics is using Ouster’s new Rev8 native color lidar sensors inside its Cantilever platform. In plain English, the lidar helps Gecko’s robots see and map industrial environments with more detail, which can make inspections smarter and less vibes-based.
Why this matters
If you own OUST, this is the kind of announcement that matters more for the long game than the next five minutes of trading. Partnerships like this help Ouster show that its sensors aren’t just sitting on slideshows — they’re being built into real-world systems that move, scan, and collect data in messy places where humans probably don’t want to crawl around.
The bigger picture
This is also a reminder that Ouster keeps leaning into the “physical AI” story. That’s the industry’s current favorite phrase for “machines that can perceive the world and do useful stuff,” which is a lot more marketable than “industrial robots with better eyes.”
- Gecko already uses Ouster lidar for navigation in complex environments.
- Rev8 adds a new native color layer to the mix, which sounds like a feature upgrade rather than a reset.
- The commercial takeaway: more integration, more credibility, and potentially more stickiness for Ouster’s product line.
Big picture: partnerships like this don’t guarantee a straight line to profits, but they do help Ouster keep turning technical hype into actual industrial use cases.