Trivia

The actor who played Shoe Boogie, the jive-talking Native American janitor, is uncredited. To date, his identity has not been verified.

As of before May 2024, the credit has been added to David Adam Newman

The art on the film's videocassette packaging appears to have been plagiarized from promotional artwork for Mad Max (1979).

In a scene near the beginning of the film, Coldyron presents a film about R.O.T.O.R to fellow "police scientists" from Los Angeles. The characters introduce themselves, state their alma mater and then question Coldyron about the robot's features. Each universities' name is a reference to The Beach Boys (Wilson Institute, Jardine University at Malibu, etc.). They then awkwardly insert the phrases "Good vibrations," "I get around," "God only knows" and "Heroes and Villains" into their questions. These are all names of songs by The Beach Boys.

Screenwriter Budd Lewis disowned the film after its release, blaming director Cullen Blaine and lead star Richard Gesswein for rewriting his original screenplay, eliminating most of the humor and inserting several extraneous scenes in order to replace parts of Lewis' screenplay that were deemed too expensive to film.

Widely considered to be a low-budget copycat of the big-budget Hollywood blockbuster RoboCop (1987), this film shares two other elements with "RoboCop": the extensive use of filming locations in the vicinity of Dallas, Texas, and the appearance of Michael Hunter.