Wildlife Whisperer: Inside the AI Built to Talk to Animals with Sára Nožková
What if AI could help humans and wildlife coexist by understanding how animals communicate instead of simply trying to scare them away?
In this episode of Machine Minds, Greg sits down with Sára Nožková, CEO and co-founder of Flox Intelligence, to explore how artificial intelligence, edge computing, and wildlife science are coming together to reduce collisions between animals and critical infrastructure. From airports and railways to farms and highways, Flox is building technology that listens to, learns from, and responds to wildlife in ways that improve safety for both humans and animals.
Sára shares her journey from transportation research at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm to founding a company that is pioneering what she calls "wildlife intelligence." She explains how years of AI research evolved into a platform capable of identifying animal behavior, interpreting species-specific communication, and guiding wildlife away from danger without relying on harmful or outdated deterrent methods.
In this conversation, Greg and Sára explore:
How a background in transportation and infrastructure led Sára to build one of the world's first AI platforms focused on wildlife communication
Why traditional wildlife deterrents like pyrotechnics, fences, and gunshots often fail, and what a more intelligent approach looks like
How Flox Edge devices combine computer vision, bioacoustics, and generative AI to detect, identify, and respond to more than 27 wildlife species
The concept of the "Wildlife Brain" and how AI learns regional behaviors, dialects, and species-specific responses over time
The engineering challenges of deploying autonomous AI hardware in some of the harshest environments on Earth, from Arctic winters to Texas summers
Real-world deployments protecting airports, railways, farms, livestock, and transportation networks across Europe and North America
Why partnerships with organizations like WWF, Alstom, and transportation authorities are helping validate an entirely new category of wildlife technology
Lessons from scaling a deep tech startup across two continents, raising capital, expanding into the U.S., and building a mission-driven team
Why understanding animal communication could fundamentally change how humans coexist with wildlife in an increasingly developed world
Whether you're building AI at the edge, deploying robotics in challenging environments, or simply fascinated by how technology can solve problems beyond the factory floor, this episode offers a fascinating look at one of the most unexpected applications of artificial intelligence today.
Learn more about Flox Intelligence: https://floxintelligence.com/
Connect with Sára Nožková on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sára-nožková-91339685/
Connect with Greg Toroosian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregtoroosian/