It should be patched in but there are tons of already pre made robots just wandering about. What if you could instruct them to go to one of your settlements and then when you use the Automatron building station you override or patch its software and make it into an automatron robot. Why blow them up for parts when you can bring them into your family.

You can already make them companions, you dont have to blow them up.

how about also they drop robot parts on death instead of just the automatron themed ones.

They won't fast travel with you so i can't test it properly if they can be put into the automatron machine.

That would be nice All the robots should have had a chance to drop parts. Even turn a lot of static limbs out there into pick up ones.

Well just tested it. I brought one to a settlement with a robotics workbench and i couldn't mod it. :C