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Corvus Drones Help ASICS Cut Inventory Recovery Time 60%

Autonomous drones conduct nightly inventory checks at a U.S. distribution center, allowing ASICS to redirect about 200 labor hours a month.

November 11, 2026 by Artem

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Sportswear firm ASICS says it has cut its time to locate misplaced inventory by about 60 percent at its American distribution center thanks to Corvus Robotics' autonomous drone technology.

Corvus announced the findings Nov. 10, noting that Corvus One drones were working for ASICS America at the firm's distribution center in Byhalia, Mississippi, scanning its goods and spotting inventory discrepancies.

The drones were able to increase the counting frequency of inventory by six times, from twice per year to once a month in two storage rooms. ASICS also reported transferring about 200 labor hours per month from the counting process to other activities.

Over a span of three months, the drones helped to find 26 misplaced cases containing more than 200 pairs of shoes.

ASICS stores about three million items in total, including 2.3 million pairs of footwear and 700,000 pieces of apparel and accessories among 44,000 stock-keeping units.

Seven flights per night are scheduled for ASICS' drones around 7 p.m. Drones use cameras and their spatial reasoning abilities combined with computer vision to navigate the aisles in the warehouse without any need for positioning equipment, Corvus claims.

In each flight, drones take pictures of product barcodes and count boxes in specific storage locations. The two figures are compared, and possible discrepancies are investigated. In particular, drones check returned merchandise sections, where similar goods might be stored in one place.

The next day, people working in the warehouse look at collected images and videos in order to solve inventory problems without actually going to the shelves.

Until recently, ASICS reserved 12 to 15 items out of 100 on its online marketplace because of lack of certainty regarding their availability. According to ASICS, now all their inventory is offered through online listings.

Corvus has not shared the number of drones in operation at the warehouse and the price of the solution.