 Since its initial release, "Robot Jox" has attracted a minor following of devoted fans and influenced various elements of popular culture.In 1994, industrial music artist Trent Reznor sampled and looped sounds from the film for the song titled "The Becoming", which is included on the Nine Inch Nails album, "The Downward Spiral".The B-movie podcast, BMFcast, uses a rating scale of 1–5 Jox for good "bad" movies.