The idea behind the mod was to change the behaviour of the combat robots, not their spawn conditions. Since the vanilla combat robots can only be spawned by the player, this limitation also applies to the modified ones.
However, since you make a good case about them being usless unless being able to be deployed remotly, I will try to make this feature happen. Unfortunatly, I don't know if it is possible yet. I will keep you updated but can't tell you the time table yet.