Autonomous Inventory Management for Lights-Out Warehousing

Corvus Robotics announces an updated version of its Corvus One system that brings, for the first time, the ability to fly its drone-powered system in a lights-out distribution center without any added infrastructure like reflectors, stickers or beacons.

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Corvus Robotics announces an updated version of its Corvus One system that brings, for the first time, the ability to fly its drone-powered system in a lights-out distribution center without any added infrastructure like reflectors, stickers or beacons. The newest generation product is supported by an $18 million Series A round and seed funding led by S2G Ventures and Spero Ventures.

“The Corvus One system is a vital component of end-to-end inventory visibility and optimization,” says Jackie Wu, co-founder and CEO, Corvus Robotics. “We're growing extremely quickly, and our recent funding round will be used to help Corvus meet rapidly growing customer adoption while continuing to build products with capabilities nowhere else in the world ever has had."

Key Takeaways:

  • Relying on computer vision and generative AI to navigate, the fully autonomous Corvus One system operates in both very narrow aisles (minimum width of 50 inches) and in very wide aisles. With obstacle detection at its core, the light-weight drone safely flies at walking speed without disrupting workflow or blocking aisles and can preventatively ascend to avoid collisions with people, forklifts, or robots, if necessary. Its advanced barcode scanning can read any barcode symbology in any orientation placed anywhere on the front of cartons or pallets.
  • By shifting associates to higher-value tasks like picking and replenishment, Corvus One improves operational efficiency while also realizing hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor savings.
  • The system helps maximize space utilization, avoid stockouts, and improve KPIs with smarter replenishment and more accurate physical inventory (PI) counts. It ensures 99.9% inventory accuracy, can free up to 10% total pallet racking space, and reduces shrinkage and material handling equipment costs.
  • With no Wi-Fi installation required, deploying Corvus One takes less than a week. The Robot as a Service (RaaS) model future-proofs each installation with free hardware and software upgrades so that each system evolves without extra costs.


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