In its 4 year existence the Israeli start-up Taranis has seen huge growth. Taranis started as a tool to provide farmers with the information to detect and prevent crop disease, weeds and insect damage based on weather forecasts gathered from aerial surveillance. The technology was then further developed by adding visual layers from satellites, planes and drones and leveraged with AI capabilities. Taranis also created a one-of-a-kind, patented hardware that can capture accurate images at a high resolution from a plane flying at 160 km/h, such as a specific insect on a leaf from 200 feet above ground. Taranis CEO Ofir Schlam says the future of the precision farming industry is looking bright, with thousands of start-ups emerging within the last 10 years. According to him, smart farming is projected to create a massive impact on the agricultural economy in the near future and will be dependent on precision technologies, such as the adoption of automated practices and indoor urbanised farming.

As artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous machines become more common in agriculture, the industry is going through enormous changes. Ofir Schlam, CEO and co-founder of Taranis, a leading precision agriculture intelligence platform, recently shared more information about these changes in an interview. Taranis is an AI-powered agriculture intelligence platform that was selected to be part of John Deere's startup collaborator. It uses sophisticated computer vision, data science and deep learning algorithms to enable farmers to make informed decisions. The platform is capable of monitoring fields and finding early symptoms of uneven emergence, weeds, nutrient deficiencies, disease or insect infestations, water damage and equipment issues.

Faced with an enemy fighter jet, there's one sensible thing a military drone should do: split. But in December 2002, caught in the crosshairs of an Iraqi MiG, an unmanned US Predator was instructed to stay put. The MiG fired, the Predator fired back and the result, unhappily for the US, was a heap of drone parts on the southern Iraqi desert. This incident is often regarded as the first dogfight between a drone, properly known as an unmanned aerial vehicle or UAV, and a conventional, manned fighter. Yet in a way, the Predator hardly stood a chance.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp Says Going Public Is'A Possibility' Big data and IoT are transforming how wars are being fought. Technology is changing not just how we engage with our enemies but also the fronts on which we will engage them. It's also potentially promising to help bring about world peace. Autonomous stealth drones such as the Taranis produced by BAE Systems change the way traditional wars are fought. The Taranis (aptly named for the Celtic god of thunder) can fly to a preselected area on a programmed flight path, identify a threat, target that threat, and alert a human operator that it has identified a target.