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RoboCop statue finally installed in Detroit

Rob Beschizza
Dec 08, 2025
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Screenshot: CBS Detroit

The future of Detroit’s presented by 1987’s Robocop was hardly inspiring: a blighted landscape where cops and robbers alike are pawns of the giant corporation redeveloping it. But after 38 years its satire of capitalism, consumerism and AI is sharper than ever, and after 15 years a warehoused statue of the character has finally be…

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