The Space Force has a robot dog that hunts down dangerous material. And yes, it is apparently named after “Chappie,” the 2015 Neil Blomkamp-directed science-fiction movie where a police robot ...

In Johannesburg, the police ... him to stop the robot cops. When they see the damaged robot in the van, they force Deon to program it to heist banks with them and they call it Chappie.

It's a very disturbing concept." Chappie (voiced by Sharlto Copley) is the first robot that can think and feel for itself. Created by science prodigy Deon Wilson (Dev Petal), Chappie is raised by ...