Runaway (1984)

"It Is The Future. He fought the horror of robots programmed to kill."
Sgt. Jack Ramsay (Tom Selleck) a veteran cop who works in the Runaway squad and which specializes in taking care of defective robots on the rampage, but one day he suddenly finds himself to be the main target of the evil, Dr. Charles Luther (Gene Simmons). A sadistic high-tech wizard who seems to have a personal vendetta against Jack. Teamed up with his new assistant Karen Thompson (Cynthia Rhodes) they must work together on how to find a way to stop Dr. Luther and his army of killer robots, before it is too late.

With Tom Selleck in the lead, a solid budget and rock star Gene Simmons playing the evil part, Runway directed by Michael Crichton was to be seen as another sci-fi/thriller hit. Looking back at the killer robots, and then compare them to the share terror of the nightmarish endoskeleton that rises from the flames in The Terminator, which had a smilar budget, it is no wonder why one film has become a living legend, while the other has, well become "forgotten".
Sure, it was not just the special effects, The Terminator was a groundbreaking piece of work, while Runaway was an uneven heroic Tom Selleck sci-fi cop vehicle, where we get to see him take on some lunatic along with his small army of killer robots, that look more like som LEGO technic spider than a fearsome machine.
Anyway, Tom handles himself well, and I thought the film starts up promising, specially the scene in the beginning where he takes on a robot on the loose, and with the life of a little baby at risk, Selleck must move in to save the day. 

Kirstie Alley and the beautiful Cynthia Rhodes backs him up, and Gene Simmons tries to come off as a respectable villain, but I thought he did a much better job a couple of years later on, in the Rutger Hauer film, Wanted: Dead or Alive (1987).
The music is done by legendary composer, Jerry Goldsmith: