We live in an age of disruption -- when new technology and behavioral shifts that would have seemed unimaginable even a few years ago are transforming the way we live. Artificial intelligence and robotics are fundamentally reinventing the workforce. Drones and driverless cars are transforming supply chains and logistics, even as they challenge policymakers to rethink existing approaches to infrastructure and regulation. Millennials are changing consumption patterns and demand for everything from cars to real estate. Responding to disruption has become one of the biggest strategic imperatives facing today's business leaders and policymakers.

We won't have robot doctors for a long time, but the human doctors we have now are beginning to lean on specialized artificial intelligence to help save time. Google DeepMind just announced a partnership with University College London Hospital which will explore using artificial intelligence to treat patients with head and neck cancers. The goal is to develop tools to automatically identify cancerous cells for radiology machines. Currently, radiologists employ a manual process, called image segmentation, to take CT and MRI scans and use them to create a map of the patient's anatomy with clear guidelines of where to direct the radiation. Avoiding healthy areas of the head and neck requires that map to be extraordinarily detailed; typically it takes four hours to create.

Anyone who books an Uber in Pittsburgh in the coming weeks may discover that the person behind the wheel is also a passenger. Uber will offer customers rides in robotic taxis within a matter of weeks or days. The company has been developing the technology for the past year and has been testing it on the streets of Pittsburgh. It will launch with about a dozen taxis, with the expectation of having 100 on the road by the end of the year. The taxis will have drivers who can take control in an emergency.

From launching a yearlong anti-ISIS airstrike campaign in Syria to conducting naval exercises in the South China Sea this week, Russia's military might is showing no signs of slowing after its global expo promoting the country's brand new weapons of war concluded Sunday. The International Military-Technical Forum, an event held this past week near Moscow called "Army-2016," featured more than 11,000 pieces of modern military hardware to show "the maximum range of the export potential of Russian high-tech military products, represented in the form of natural samples on static display and in action on land, water and in the sky," the official website says. Some of the items on display included bombs, air defense systems and unmanned vehicles for both the air and ground that Sputnik News called robots. Below are photos and video of 10 key state-of-the-art weapons of war Russia had on display. The horwitzer armored truck that is also known as the "Phlox" comes with a powerful cannon mounted on top that has the ability to shoot with precision targets that are more than 6 miles away.

With students from a range of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) competitions from across the country looking on, U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks after viewing science projects at the White House Science Fair, at the White House, March 23, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) It is already a given fact that gender inequality still continue to persist in the field of education. Despite the government's efforts to ensure that all students should have access to high quality education, gender gap remain notable, particularly in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering And Mathematics)-related and CTE (Career and Technical Education) curricula. Fortunately, artificial intelligence (AI) has been considered as a powerful tool in bridging the gender gap in STEM education. That's why, Stanford has launched a tuition-free AI camp called SAILORS to encourage young girls, as well as "underrepresented minorities" to explore STEM-related fields. Initially launched on the summer of 2015, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Outreach Summer aka SAILORS was created by computer science professor Fei-Fei Li and Postdoc (postdoctoral scholar) Olga Russakovsky.

Robots and artificial intelligence were once just the stuff of Hollywood fantasy, from the Star Wars and Terminator movies to Iron Man's JARVIS butler. However, intelligent machines that can simulate reasoning and develop knowledge to mimic human thought processes are now part of the real world -- and with that comes the risk of bias and cyber attack. Investment in artificial intelligence (AI) in the U.S. more than doubled to 587 million last year, and machine learning is expected to drive an increase in the use of robotics and software automation in coming years. AI algorithms are already used in investment, healthcare, programming, law, music, book and film recommendation services, games, and language learning -- to name but a few sectors. These uses often produce outcomes that would be unattainable by humans or do so at a far lower cost.

Rachel Law, the 20-something co-founder of a New York startup called Kip, is sitting next to me at a café, tapping her phone screen to show how the company's service based on artificial intelligence allows users to shop while on Slack by communicating not in typed or spoken words but in cartoonish emoji. If Law were doing this demo for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton and used the terms artificial intelligence, Slack and emoji in the same sentence, each candidate's brain would no doubt seize up like an engine that had run out of oil. We have a problem, folks. Over the next four-year presidential term, a swarm of fantastic new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, blockchain, personal genomics and drones, will profoundly alter society, business and geopolitics in ways we've never seen. And our two major-party presidential candidates don't have a clue.

The government unveiled has unveiled a campaign to raise productivity at construction sites by 20 percent by 2025 through the use of drones and artificial intelligence. At an inaugural meeting of officials and private-sector experts tasked with formulating new growth strategy policies, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowed Monday to wipe out the image of construction work as dangerous, dirty and demanding, and "drastically" change the work environment. The government envisions using drones to carry out surveying at public works sites such as tunnels, bridges and dams. The use of artificial intelligence is aimed at dramatically reducing the time required to carry out land surveys. The government plans to discuss topics to be included in its new growth strategy until around January and compile the strategy around the middle of next year.

A few special guests showed up to see the launch of NASA's asteroid-sampling spacecraft yesterday (Sept. Former TV "Science Guy" Bill Nye, who currently serves as CEO of The Planetary Society nonprofit organization, cheered on the OSIRIS-REx mission yesterday afternoon here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), just hours before the probe's 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT) launch from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. OSIRIS-REx is now chasing down a 1,640-foot-wide (500 meters) asteroid named Bennu, on a seven-year mission to snag samples of the space rock and send the material back to Earth. Bennu was known as 1999 RQ36 until 2013, when 9-year-old Mike Puzio won a Planetary Society contest to give the asteroid a more fitting and memorable name. Puzio, who is now 12, joined Nye at KSC yesterday in the lead-up to the launch.

It's been a busy summer in the artificial intelligence (A.I.) space, but the most interesting A.I. opportunities may not come from the biggest names. You may have heard about Tesla's self-driving cars that made headlines twice, for vastly different reasons -- a fatal crash in Florida in which the driver was using the Autopilot software, and claims by a Missouri man that the feature drove him 20 miles to a hospital after he suffered a heart attack, saving his life. Or you might have heard of Apple spending 200 million to acquire machine learning and A.I. startup Turi. A smart drone defeated an experienced Air Force pilot in flight simulation tests. IBM's Watson diagnosed a 60-year-old woman's rare form of leukemia within 10 minutes, after doctors had been stumped for months.