We love robots. Whether they are quirky or resourceful, cute or heroic, metal men have been a fixture in Hollywood, for decades.The new film “Real Steel,” in theaters Oct. 7, is set in the ...

The synopsis for RoboCop (2014) is as follows: “In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology.

One such change from RoboCop ’87 is a decreased emphasis on the henchman and jester of Verhoeven’s picture: ED-209, a dysfunctional, tantrum-prone robot roughly the size of a Ford Expedition.