Orion Pictures had originally planned to make a fourth RoboCop film, but decided to license a television series instead after the studio went bankrupt and RoboCop 3 (1993) received a negative reception.

Canada's Skyvision Entertainment paid Orion Pictures a $500,000 cash infusion for TV licensing rights in May 1993, and the series was filmed in Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario.

The two-hour pilot episode was adapted from Corporate Wars, a discarded script originally written for RoboCop 2 by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, the writers of the original RoboCop film.

Skyvision was in negotiations with Peter Weller, the original RoboCop actor, to reprise his role for the series, but this deal never came to fruition, leading to Richard Eden being cast instead.

Only 22 episodes were produced and the show was not renewed for a second season, largely due to cost, with each episode reportedly costing between $1.2 million and $1.5 million to produce.

The villain Pudface Morgan is based on the original RoboCop film character Emil Antonowsky, who suffered a similar toxic disfigurement; since Emil's death was cut from the TV broadcast edit of the movie, his survival as Pudface fits the series' continuity.

The soundtrack album A Future to This Life: Robocop – The Series Soundtrack was released on January 24, 1995, featuring a theme by Joe Walsh and Lita Ford alongside classic rock songs from The Band, The Flamingos, Iron Butterfly, and KC & the Sunshine Band.

In Germany and Italy, the pilot episode 'The Future Of Law Enforcement' was released as a stand-alone film on VHS and DVD under the title RoboCop 4: Law & Order.

In 2021, Rallie LLC acquired the show's rights from MGM and remastered all 21 episodes plus the two-hour pilot for release on the streaming service Tubi and on DVD/Blu-ray through Liberation Hall.