ASICS America Corvus One inventory drones in Byhalia, Mississippi: 6x count frequency, 60% faster recovery, full marketplace feed
ASICS America is flying Corvus Robotics' Corvus One autonomous inventory drones in its 855,000-square-foot distribution center in Byhalia, Mississippi, Corvus announced Nov. 10. The drones now count two of the building's highest-risk areas, singles and case reserve, monthly instead of twice a year, a 6x increase. ASICS reports recovering misplaced inventory roughly 60% faster and redirecting about 200 monthly labor hours to inventory research and exception work. In one three-month stretch the drones surfaced 26 misplaced cases holding more than 200 pairs of shoes.
"If a unit went missing, we might not find it for six months," said Kyle Koestler, senior director of distribution and transportation at ASICS America. ASICS schedules seven flights a night from around 7 p.m. in aisles under 6 feet wide, with no added infrastructure. All figures are ASICS or Corvus claims. Neither disclosed a price, contract value or fleet size.
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Servospace analysis: A named ASICS operator is on the record about monthly cycle counts and previously waiting as long as six months to find a missing unit. The 60% faster recovery, about 200 labor hours, marketplace-feed change and recovered-case counts are ASICS figures as stated in Corvus's release, not independently audited. The labor line is modest: about 200 hours a month is a little more than one full-time worker at 40 hours a week. The bigger money is on the revenue side. Before the drones, ASICS held back 12 to 15 of every 100 units from its marketplace availability feeds because the tail of its inventory carried fulfillment risk, leaving steep-discount liquidation as the alternative. ASICS says it now publishes the full feed and sells that product at full price. In a building with close to 3 million units across about 44,000 SKUs, run on a Manhattan Associates WMS, that tail is where the payoff likely sits, though neither company puts a dollar figure on it. Not disclosed: what ASICS pays Corvus, how many drones fly in Byhalia, the dollar value of recovered stock, or accuracy before and after. FreightWaves names Gather AI and Verity as rival inventory-drone suppliers.
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Sources
- Corvus Robotics via GlobeNewswire: ASICS America Recovers Misplaced Inventory 60% Faster with Corvus One Warehouse Inventory Drones (Nov. 10, 2026)
- FreightWaves (Eric Kulisch): ASICS warehouse drones quickly find misplaced inventory (Nov. 10, 2026)
- Robotics & Automation News (Sam Francis): ASICS cuts inventory recovery time 60 percent using Corvus Robotics drones (Nov. 10, 2026)
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Summarized by Servospace from the sources above, drafted with AI help and checked against those sources before publishing. Claims are the companies' or outlets' unless we say otherwise. How we work.