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(Photo: Detroit News video screenshot) Ten years after a crowdsourcing campaign raised money for a Detroit RoboCop statue, the two-ton bronze work is complete and ready to stand guard in the city though it does not yet have a home. An update on the art piece and a nostalgic dive into how it came to be land the cover of this week s issue of the Metro Times. The campaign led by filmmaker Brandon Walley and Loveland Technologies CEO Jerry Paffendorf raised $67,000 from 2,700 people across the globe, money that went toward commissioning Venus Bronze Works Giorgio Gikas to make the statue.