The Origin of this foe are very vague, but thanks to a decrypted message from our old foes, the Cyborgs, announcing the "Independence of Cyberstan" and Cyborg's entry into the First Galactic War, we know that these machines are descendants of the Cyborgs, created to continue fighting their pointless war against Super Earth and one day liberate the Cyborgs from their so called "unwarranted enslavement" on Cyberstan.
However such matters are not important to you and I, all that you need to know is that these new "Automatons" are mindless, bloodthirsty robots, coded for nothing but murder and socialist violence, their unthinking hatred of Freedom makes them a threat to all citizens of Super Earth.