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Updated 6-jun-2001, 2000.
Introduction
The animated series "RoboCop: Alpha Commando" (which premiered in the US in autumn 1998) chronicles the 2030 adventures of the eponymous cyborg, now a member of Division Alpha, in New Detroit City and elsewhere. This is RoboCop's fifth outing (three movies, a live-action series and another animated series preceded it), and the current writers/producers are apparently intent upon transforming him into Inspector Gadget, as the episode summaries below amply demonstrate. While he's equipped with a certain core set of gadgetry that appears repeatedly, each episode introduces perhaps dozens of additional tools, gear and abilities.
Episodes
In episode (unknown title) (in which Dr.Anais Gaia steals a phobia-inducing XT virus found in Antarctica) ...
In episode "Power Play" (in which a quasi-hippie luddite hijacks Neumeier's new solar power platform) RoboCop has a parachute (though it's out for cleaning) and all-encompassing airbags (which cushion his fall from a skyscraper). ...
In episode (unknown title) (in which a botanist, accidentally transformed into a human-plant hybrid, plans to so transform the rest of humanity) RoboCop once again uses his rollerblades and electro-static discharge. He has a swamp buggy mode, which uses his back-mounted prop in conjuction with his sled mode (introduced in (Antarctica)) and a set of inflatable floats. His back also contains a small winged jetpack. Both a protective net and a small umbrella can deploy from the top of his helmet. Both wrists can extend machetes; his right hand can transform into a set of hedge clippers, and his left into a leaf blower; his right forearm contains an adhesive tape dispenser, and his right wrist can extrude business cards.
In episode "Out of the Dark" (in which an unsuspected tribe of subterranean neanderthals with giant insects retaliate when a geothermal plant pours toxic waste into their caverns) RoboCop once again uses his cable arms, finger laser, electro-static discharge, and chainsaw (right arm; plus he can fire it as a projectile). He also used a spectrum analyzer (capable of identifying an insect's chitinous exoskeleton) and a loudspeaker (activated by pressing the panel in his right pec).
In episode "Das Re-Boot" (in which a tycoon scams to scuttle the _S.S.Colossus_, his shoddily-built nuclear hydrofoil cruise ship, for the insurance, using a bomb implanted in his supposed fiancee, Francesca the cyborg) RoboCop once again uses his cable arms and "data probe" (aka data spike, right fist), but also a "fist probe" (right knuckle), a socket in his right ear, and a cluster of four telescoping cables stored behind his right pec ("chest probe"). His sensors include an X-ray scan, audiovisual recording, and explosives detection. Both pecs can hinge open to eject a self-inflating toroidal life preserver, and he has small props in the soles of his feet. There's a vertical CD-writer slot in his right pec, a horizontal CD-reader in the center of his chest, and a printer on the underside of his left pec. His right hand can retract and be replaced with a power screwdriver, and there's a water pump which exhausts through the circular inset in his right shoulder. Finally, both thighs have hinged panels concealing rocket-propelled grappling hook launchers; these mate to his forearms, with the cable anchored in the compartments.