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Wait, sorry. Wrong definition of kinship. If you mean familial bonds, a similar logic applies. If there is a reason for why they would see automatons of the same factory as more important than others, like them running the same coding language and can therefore be understood more easily, or have the diagnostic tools to repair eachother, then that could constitute their own definition of kinship.
Same thing, thinking about familial bonds in terms of evolutionary advantage and applying that logic to what role automatons could have taken in the past help you create that sort of stuff organically without needing to copy it from the human definition when it makes no sense.
It's general advice if you want to write stuff that is alien to our mode of life(aliens, robots, gods, immortals, intangible spirits, etc.)