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Aussie tech startup uses drones and machine learning to help save orang-utans

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Technology created by an Australian startup is going to bring the conservation of orang-utans in a Sumatran jungle into the digital age. Adelaide-based Jemsoft's Monocular API is a computer vision machine learning technology, which can be taught to search for items in the real world. Under a new agreement the company will licence the software to conservationists to be applied to footage taken via drone above the canopies to identify nests of the endangered mammal. Rather than conservationists sifting through photos and video manually, Jemsoft's intelligent software can be trained to identify the orang-utan nests. Jemsoft, founded in 2013, is already being used by a number of large enterprise clients, including Fortune 500 companies, for other purposes.