ASICS America Recovers Misplaced Inventory 60% Faster with Corvus One® Warehouse Inventory Drones

Mountain View, CA — November 10, 2026

Corvus Robotics, a leader in deploying physical AI robotic systems for logistics and warehousing operations, today announced that ASICS America Corporation is running Corvus One® autonomous inventory drones inside its Byhalia, MS distribution center, where nightly flights have increased counting frequency 6x in two of the building’s highest-risk storage areas, which are now counted monthly. ASICS reports recovering misplaced inventory roughly 60% faster since the system went in and has redirected about 200 hours of monthly counting labor into inventory research and exception resolution.

The facility holds close to 3 million units, 2.3 million pairs of footwear and 700,000 pieces of apparel and accessories, across roughly 44,000 SKUs, all managed in a Manhattan Associates warehouse management system. It fills e-commerce orders and ships to wholesale accounts, along with ASICS full price and outlet retail stores.

Corvus One covers two storage profiles in the building: the singles area, where returned and single pair product gets stored and picked, and case reserve. Both were counted twice a year under ASICS cycle count policy.

The 200 hours a month that came out of manual counting went into work the inventory control team is better suited to, including inventory reconciliation in their packing operation, root cause research, and special projects for the wholesale side of the business. In one three-month stretch the drones surfaced 26 misplaced cases holding more than 200 pairs of shoes, product that would otherwise have stayed unavailable to customers until the next scheduled physical count.

In both areas the drone does two jobs on the same pass, reading every UPC and counting the boxes in each location. In the singles area, returns mean the same SKU can show up several times in one location, so a UPC read on its own can get attached to the wrong box. Counting the boxes gives ASICS a physical total to check the scans against. If the drone counts 10 boxes, it should come back with 10 UPC reads.

ASICS schedules seven flights a night, starting around 7 p.m. The very narrow aisles (VNA) the drones fly in are less than 6 feet wide, and Corvus One flies them using onboard computer vision and spatial reasoning, with no additional infrastructure anywhere in the building. The following morning an inventory associate reviews each flight and resolves most discrepancies from a desk, working off the video and images the drones capture of every location.

The accuracy shows up on the revenue side too. ASICS publishes availability feeds to online marketplaces, and before Corvus One the team held back 12 to 15 units out of every 100 because the tail of the inventory chain carried fulfillment risk. Product at the bottom of that tail never shows up on the marketplace, which leaves liquidation at a steep discount as the alternative. ASICS now publishes the full feed and sells that product at full price.

Taking those counts off the floor also means fewer hours of lift equipment running through the aisles, which feeds another ASICS priority. The Byhalia facility is LEED Silver certified and draws about half its power from an on-site solar array. ASICS counts the Corvus One deployment among the programs supporting its sustainability goals.

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