Was it specifically Hammerstein?Might have been one of many war-surplus robots based off the Hammerstein prototype. There were a lot of war robots around - the Volgan Wars were only a few decades previously (and possibly in a different timeline - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgans#History_within_2000_AD )
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