thinking about how Asimov all but invented the robot detective subgenre of mysteries with R. Daneel Olivaw & The Caves of Steel, and how the reason these types of stories still get made to this day is how resonant the theme of something made for obedience tearing down a carefully designed conspiracy is
and then of course Ishinomori perfected the robot detective design to the point of it getting visually homaged in the 00s Tezuka's Metropolis, The Big O, and Street Fighter