en with drawfaggotry or writefaggotry to match.|
They're more of an /a/, /co/ and /v/ phenomena than a /tg/ one, but robots in the shape of sexy women, ranging from "perfectly human until you see their internals" to "visibly mechanical but still sexy", are a well and truly established branch of the monstergirls family tree. What else can we say? Some guys in the late-70s/80s found their first crush in the succubus, elf or marilith - others found it in Cutie Honey.
In the Monster Girl Encyclopedia, the Automaton is a mechanical magitek branch of the golem which taps into the robot-girl branch of the fetish. They're ancient lost technology golems of the "kuudere" archetype, meaning they act cold and emotionless because they can't express themselves well, but they're secretly very gentle and loving beings.