BRENDAN I. KOERNER — Maybe life in New York has toughened me up, but Hong Kong’s Robotcop the Third just doesn’t seem that intimidating. The Channelnewsasia.com write-up admits that “there is not a single violent bolt” in this $38,500 ‘bot, and that its main function will be to teach schoolkids about not taking candy from strangers. Where’s the mid-fist spike and kill-’em-all attitude that we were promised in Robocop? Somehow I expected more ass-kicking design from the land of Chow Yun-Fat.
