The Robot Grunt is a mechanical HECU unit cut from Half-Life. There is no information available about where and when during the game it was to appear. However, it is used in the German censored version of the game.

The Robot Grunt [2] is a mechanized replacement for the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit Marine in the censored German version of Half-Life. Robot Grunts appear as armored, bipedal humanoid robots with a dark green camouflage pattern covering their body and a single red eye offset to the left side of their head.

The Zentraedi Tactical Battle Pod, or Polyrobo (sometimes called Walking Mech) is a robot model used in a GoldSrc skeletal animation demonstration and seen in the Half-Life Alpha, designed to stress and test the engine. The demonstration was shown to Next Generation in August 1997.

Polyrobo [2] is a robot model used by Valve during the early previews of Half-Life to demonstrate the technical features of the GoldSrc engine. Designed as a large bipedal mech, Polyrobo was primarily meant to show off the engine's skeletal animation system.

2025年1月20日 · Version 4.5: Early Robo-Grunt. To skirt censorship laws in Germany, which were strict around fatal violence against humans, Valve opted to replace most human entities with robotic doppelgangers, and the Human Grunt was no exception. This grunt had a silver head, arms and thighs, with the rest having an olive green colouration.

Robotic beings with an evolved AI.

When HL1 came out (and all the way up to the early '10s, if I'm not mistaken), it was against the law in Germany to show """""Realistic""""" gore in video games. TF2 did this as well, where the mercs weren't robots on the outside, but they would gib into oil and robot parts.

A Half-Life (HL) Mod in the Human Grunts category, submitted by Dmitriy-Bars

2010年6月2日 · Goldsrc Warehouse (HL1) Various models (9864) NPC, monsters (675) Player models (3721) Weapon models (3690) ... robo. Description. HOW TO INSTALL.

2022年12月1日 · These are replacement models for the human grunts in Half-Life. Complete with death animations that are more robotic.