Robocop

Student research summary:

by Isaiah S.

Robocop

In the movie Robocop , Alex Murphy and his partner, Jack Lewis, are attempting to arrest crime lord Antoine Vallon, unaware that he has contacts inside the department. When Lewis gets shot and is hospitalized after an undercover deal goes wrong, Murphy is the main character in the movie and is badly injured when Vallon the enemy detonates a car bomb in his driveway; a subsequent medical evaluation states that Murphy has third-degree burns over eighty percent of his body, serious spinal damage left him paralysed from the waist down, his left arm and leg had to be amputated, serious damage to the optical nerves in his left eye left him blind in that eye, and he was likely to be deaf. Faced with this damage, Murphy's wife agrees for him to be made part of the new Robocop program, the program is where he is turned it to a robot but with a human body. He is programed like a robot would be having a body,a program, sensors, behavior, actuator and a brain. Raymond Sellars, overturns the Dreyfus Act, which prevents robots being used for law enforcement purposes in American streets, by putting a human in the robotic body. Robocop's body is reconstructed with a protected armored shell composed of titanium laminated with Kevlar. All of the titanium and Kevlar makes him resistant against both bombs and bullets, as well as impacts such, as being hit by cars and falling off buildings.