With the War Wagon also coming back, I'm kind of wondering if the brain powering the robot might in fact be Talbot's.
As for the art thing, Marvel has occasionally had artists copy stuff, especially robots. I think one sentinel design was literally an Evangelion, one of the new House of X/Powers of X designs looks like a Transformer from the "Prime" series, and Greg Land, in additon to his other criticisms, used Gundam mechs as HERBIE in Ultimate Fantastic Four.
There's also been a share of Dalek stuff (Doctor Who), going back to the 80s, although in that case they were mainly parodies and not exactly using the exact design (age of Ultron did this as well during the issue set in Britain). I'm pretty sure a lot of Chris Claremont, Walter Simonson and Alan Davis's work on stuff such as Excalibur and Avengers snuck in the ocassional Doctor Who references for fun. I mean, a paramilitary organization called W.H.O led by a guy called Alistair practically screams UNIT to me.