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The Category at a Glance
Autonomous warehouse inventory scanning has matured into a real category with several credible, independently-deployed platforms rather than one dominant vendor. Actel Robotics is an authorized integrator for two of them — Dexory (ground robot) and Corvus One (drone) — and we think it's worth being upfront about who else is in this space, since a genuinely useful comparison doesn't pretend competitors don't exist.
Verity (Zurich) and Gather AI (Pittsburgh, spun out of Carnegie Mellon) are the two other names that come up most often in this category. Both are real, well-funded, independently-reviewed companies with named enterprise customers — this isn't a case of comparing Actel's platforms against vaporware.
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Specification | Dexory | Corvus One | Verity | Gather AI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Form factor | Ground robot (telescoping tower) | Autonomous drone | Autonomous drone | Drone + forklift-mounted cameras |
| Navigation | LiDAR/camera SLAM, no GPS | Vision-only, no GPS/beacons | Vision-based, GPS-free | Computer vision, no GPS/WiFi |
| Minimum aisle width | Not published (claims narrow-aisle capable) | 50 inches (published) | Not published | ~4 ft 5 in (Starling 2 Logis, per one trade comparison) |
| Accuracy claim | 99.9% | 99%+ | 99.9% (self-reported) | 99.9% (self-reported) |
| Throughput claim | Up to 15,000 pallets/hr | ~250 slots/hr per drone | Up to 1,000 locations/hr | 1,500 pallets/hr (Starling 2 Logis) |
| Notable capability | No fixed infrastructure at all | Cold Chain variant to -20°F | RFID pilot at 1,000 tags/sec | Also runs on forklift cameras (MHE Vision) |
| Airframe/hardware | Proprietary | Custom-built in-house | Proprietary | Off-the-shelf drone hardware + proprietary AI |
| Deployment model | RaaS | RaaS | Hybrid purchase + subscription | Not publicly disclosed |
| Notable named result | Iron Mountain: 99.9% accuracy, 25% fewer errors | GNC: 20× faster, 35% headcount reduction | Maersk: 4% → 0% error rate network-wide | Geodis: 4,400 → 800 hours/year counting labor |
| Actel Robotics support | Authorized integrator | Authorized integrator | Not represented by Actel | Not represented by Actel |
Specifications compiled from each company's own published materials and reputable trade press (Robotics 24/7, Supply Chain Dive, Modern Materials Handling, The New Warehouse, TechCrunch). Figures for Verity and Gather AI are self-reported by those companies unless otherwise noted, and some (aisle width, battery life) are not publicly disclosed at all — we're not going to invent numbers to fill the gaps.
Verity: The Longest Track Record
Verity was founded in 2014 by Raffaello D'Andrea, a co-founder of Kiva Systems (which became Amazon Robotics) — a genuinely strong pedigree in this space. Its strongest publicly documented result is with Maersk: a pilot across four warehouses drove inventory error rate from 4% down to 0%, after which Maersk committed to rolling Verity out across its pallet-storage network. Verity has also piloted RFID scanning (with Maersk and the shoe brand On) at up to 1,000 tags read per second — a capability neither Dexory nor Corvus One currently advertises.
Where Verity is less transparent than Corvus One specifically: it doesn't publish a minimum aisle-width specification or an exact battery-life figure, describing operation instead as "autonomous for months between battery swaps." If aisle clearance is a hard constraint for your facility, that's a real question to ask Verity directly rather than assume.
Gather AI: Betting Beyond Drones
Gather AI's most interesting move is a genuine strategic pivot: rather than staying a pure drone company, it has decoupled its AI vision software from any specific hardware and now sells it running on cameras mounted to forklifts and other material handling equipment ("MHE Vision," launched 2025). That means a Gather AI deployment can capture inventory data continuously as forklifts do their normal job, rather than on a scheduled drone flight — a genuinely different operating model from Dexory or Corvus One, both of which run dedicated scan missions.
Gather AI's Starling 2 Logis drone also publishes one of the tightest aisle-clearance figures in the category (about 4 ft 5 in, per one direct trade-press comparison), though that number comes from a single article rather than Gather AI's own spec sheet, so we'd confirm it directly before treating it as gospel. Gather AI does not publicly disclose its deployment/pricing model or battery specifications.
How to Choose
See the full technical breakdown for each Actel platform on the Dexory and Corvus One pages, or compare all six platforms Actel deploys on our main compare robots page.