# Jackie Wu

> Jackie Wu is the founder and CEO of Corvus Robotics, a company that builds fully autonomous drones that fly indoors and count warehouse inventory without beacons, GPS, Wi-Fi, or a human at the controls. A Northwestern-trained roboticist who spent time inside warehouses on four continents, he grew tired of watching people climb ladders with clipboards and barcode guns, and decided to teach a drone to do it instead. Corvus designs and manufactures its drones in California, went through Y Combinator, and raised a Series A in 2024 to push warehouses toward a lights-out future.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Corvus Robotics
- **Organizations:** Corvus Robotics, Y Combinator (S18), Future Founders Fellowship (2016)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Undergraduate and Master's in Robotics (UAV controls, computer vision, deep learning), Northwestern University
- **Known for:** Founded and leads Corvus Robotics, maker of a fully autonomous warehouse inventory drone that operates with no beacons, GPS, Wi-Fi, or human operator., Built a drone system that reads damaged and degraded barcodes in real warehouse conditions., Kept engineering and manufacturing in-house in California in an industry that usually offshores production.

## Career timeline

- **2016** — Selected for the Future Founders Fellowship, a year-long program for top US student entrepreneurs.
- **2017** — Co-founded Corvus Robotics after seeing warehouses on four continents struggle with manual inventory checks.
- **2018** — Corvus Robotics joins Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch.
- **2024** — Corvus Robotics raises a Series A (reported around October 2024).
- **2025** — Speaks at ProMat 2025 in Chicago on AI and computer vision in end-to-end inventory tracking; wins NextGen Supply Chain Solution Provider Award for Robotics.

## Achievements

- Founded and leads Corvus Robotics, maker of a fully autonomous warehouse inventory drone that operates with no beacons, GPS, Wi-Fi, or human operator.
- Built a drone system that reads damaged and degraded barcodes in real warehouse conditions.
- Kept engineering and manufacturing in-house in California in an industry that usually offshores production.
- Won the NextGen Supply Chain Solution Provider Award for Robotics.
- Raised a Series A and took Corvus through Y Combinator (S18).

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Featured on The New Warehouse podcast and spoke at ProMat 2025 in Chicago on AI and computer vision in inventory tracking.
- **2024-10** — Corvus Robotics raised a Series A round to expand its autonomous drone deployments.

## Links

- Website: https://corvus-robotics.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/wujackie
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/CorvusRobotics
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@corvusrobotics2885

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Last updated: 2026-07-01