So, we've known about the Automatron achievements for a while now, thanks to Steam, but with the 1.4 patch on consoles a little more info trickled down, including more detailed artwork for the achievements. http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2016/03/11/here-are-the-achievements-for-fallout-4-automatron-dlc.aspx. The artwork for "Restoring Order" shows the Mechanist and the silhouette of an army of Protectrons - all with Mr. Handy floaty bases, instead of Protectron legs. And for "The Most Toys" we see a similar Protectron, and a Mr. Handy with Protectron Legs.

And before Automatron was even announced, we had artwork of Mr. Handy/Protectron hybrids in the game, the blueprints at the Switchboard and a few of the robot models that could spawn in lunchboxes.

So we've talked about customizing robots, but I don't think we've ever talked about mixing different robots together. What do you think?

Inb4 Sentry Assaultrons.

I can see the potential in a little mix and switch going on. Being able to get creative and churn out some rather fascinating wasteland warbots.

Who knows? Maybe even Codsworth could be modded and be more... strong, or in a similar way.

When they announced the dlc they said customize your robot with over 100 different parts.. So the logical conclusion is mixing and matching parts.

All I'd really want to do for Codsy is give him a new paint job, and maybe replace his Flamer with a Laser or electrical weapon - his buzzsaw is surprisingly powerful

You know I never thought about it this way, I haven't really been keeping that much track, but I suppose this is just full on robot crafting in the same manner of messing around with guns.

I wonder if the crafting is exclusive to one spot in the world or if you just plop down a robot workshop in settlements. I hope its the latter, since that works well with my plans for when the modding tools come.

A hover Tank made from 4 Mr Handys , three Eyes and four hover rockets. Armed with a 50. minigun and two rocket lunchers..

Man, combining Mr. Handies would actually be amazing. Magnemite evolved into Magneton!