Hey! Thanks for the thorough report!
This seems to be related to building with robots in general, although I'm not quite sure what's causing it. The robot build event has no information about the player attached and neither does the entity that was placed/upgraded. This might be because of the upgrade or because some mod interferes with the robot build event. I didn't find anything suspicious but maybe you can point me in the right direction about a mod doing either of those.
Anyways, the bug will be fixed (workaround) in 1.5.6 releasing today.