When It Comes to Counting Wildlife, Drones Are More Accurate Than People Technology could be a conservation gamechanger, but we need to interrogate its impact on wildlife ...

Ikea is now using 100 drones to count inventory in its warehouses across 16 locations in Europe. The drones fly during nonoperational hours and help employees keep track of what’s in stock.

Gather AI’s software enables drones to fly autonomously through warehouses with no GPS or Wi-Fi — even at night — to photograph inventory stored in pallet locations. The AI interprets bar codes, text ...

But, until now, the accuracy of using drones to count wildlife was unclear," says the study's lead author, Jarrod Hodgson from the University's Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences.

Searching where salmon lay eggs is getting a boost from some eyes in the sky. Researchers are testing drones to survey for salmon nests.

USGS research biologist Tony Fischbach says drones have proven to be safer, and they've helped with a long-running problem of understanding how many walruses just happen to be out of view ...

Trials began, using a drone and thermal imaging camera to monitor recently established mammals. Using a DJI M210 Aircraft fitted with a FLIR XT2 dual thermal/RGB sensor, the team wanted to see if ...

USGS hydrologist Chris Holmquist-Johnson says researchers are trying to figure out if they can use the drone to capture photo and thermal images of the birds without disturbing them.