Marx did heavily expound on this in Grundrisse, though he still posits that it would take a proletarian revolution once labor is devalued in order to mark the shift to socialism. Marx had no concept of machine intelligence, that is to say, he saw the automatons as fixed capital owned by bourgeois classes and maintained by proletarian classes. I tend to think further down the road when automatons gain some degree of independence in creation, maintenance, and further proliferation of themselves. I don't necessarily see the need for a proletarian revolution when it becomes a matter of staving societal decay on a wide scale.
Granted, you could see the revolution as large scale political action or violence depending on your lean, but I don't even think it goes that far. Maybe it's the optimist inside me, but I feel like it would be more like the Glorious Revolution than the October Revolution. When labor is devalued enough that circulating capital is no longer circulating, previously bourgeois classes will capitalize on the new currency of social recognition and willfully transition to a more philanthropic system in order to try and "corner the market" so to speak. The reputation of the person/organization would allow them to capture remaining resources (capital and otherwise), and the byproduct of that is a society where each is tended to via their needs, and work (especially scientific work, building off the currency of social recognition) is accomplished due to ability. Sounds pretty communist to me.