Good grief, has it been that long since Robocop came out? Look how “analog” the robot looks. Modern studios would never spend the time and effort to built a physical model and do all the stop motion animation. They’d just CGI it digitally.
/off topic
I was watching a show on the History Channel the other night about the auction of the Star Trek props at Christie's. The model builders were saying the same thing, that the Star Trek scale models were of a bygone era where the cameras would pan around the models, and lighting changes would show details and shadows as the camera passed by. They said that models are becoming rarer because of CGI today.
-PJ