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Pittsburgh, PA--March 29, 2022: Gather AI, the first truly automated inventory management system that brings near-real-time visibility to warehousing operations, has positively impacted many customers. Small-size physical stores all the way to multinational corporations like Walmart and Amazon depend on reliable and accurate inventory management software systems, as these are needed everywhere, and with even more challenging tasks at large-scale retailers, such as the warehouses from the biggest retailers in the Fortune 500. But, even with inventory management software, large organizations still rely on people on forklifts with barcode readers to perform cycle counts, from a significant amount of employees to costly machinery to properly manage large-scale inventories, such as those found in retail, third-party logistics, food distribution, and warehouses in air cargo industries. Most importantly, the visibility of what's sitting on the DC floor is delayed by 3-4 months. To solve this significant problem, Gather AI is building the world's first truly autonomous inventory management platform, freeing logistic-driven organizations from inefficient and manual tasks through intelligent and robust automation.

Recently, I had the pleasure of visiting one of the most innovative AI companies in Pittsburgh. Gather AI, an autonomous inventory management AI company, which is revolutionizing the warehousing industry as the title mentions "one drone at a time." Gather AI's founding team is made up of three graduates from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, which includes co-founder and chief robotics officer Sankalp Arora, co-founder, and chief technology officer Daniel Maturana, and co-founder and chief security officer, Geetesh Dubey. Gather AI uses state of the art robotics, classic AI methods, and a deep learning engine to enable autonomous inventory monitoring and management, which uses a fleet of drones. Each drone is fully autonomous and paired to a tablet device, which provides inventory data.

The same survey reports that those that use these technologies are noticing improved customer experience performance and higher customer satisfaction. But what do these technologies look like in real life? And what retail innovations can we expect to see today as a result? We interviewed 5 retail innovation leaders at NRF 2020's Innovation Lab, and they showed us how they're using emerging tech to change customer experience in 2020 and beyond. The subject of inventory management may not evoke fun and excitement – at least not in the traditional sense.