I am unable to deploy drones onto the ground .. this is a new game so I have used the latest versions
Construction_Drones .. 0.2.13
Factorio .. 0.17.76

I remember in the past we used to get some armour and basic robotport to control the bots, not seeing that gear in this latest release.

They auto deploy now, so you don't need to deploy them by yourself

Do you think you could add an option to enable manual deployment / keep them out once they are deployed, I really liked having them follow me around.