Meet the robots that will help us win the wars of the future

If former Marine and entrepreneur Sean Bielat has his way, the law enforcement officer tentatively approaching a vehicle in the future after making a traffic stop won't be an officer at all. Rather, those are the kind of interactions -- fraught with uncertainty, potentially dangerous -- that seem to him to make perfect sense for one of his robots to deal with instead. DON'T MISS: I built a Wi-Fi paradise and all I needed was one device Bielat is the CEO of Endeavor Robotics, a privately held ground robotics company that in April spun out of Mass.-based iRobot and is focused on the defense, public safety and energy and industrial markets. It's a young company, but already Endeavor has delivered some 6,000 robots to customers, everything from a roughly five-pound throwable robot perfect for surveillance and reconnaissance up to its 500-pound beast called the Kobra. The Kobra has a 12-foot arm and can lift loads of up to a couple hundred pounds.