Fallout 3 – Where are the robots to repair in the junk yard of Big Town?

Junk Yard Atlanta

Unfortunately mate, Ive got bad news for you. That is a confirmed bug / glitch on that quest. The {science} soultution ( reactivating the robots ) is impossible, the bots are not in the junkyard, and the townspeople will just sit there waiting for you to fix something that's nonexistant. Hopefully it will be patched, or, if you have the appropriate skill levels {explosives} and {small guns} solutions do work as intended. If all else fails, just help defend them yourself, the super mutant attack isn't very hard to defend against.

Junk Yard Atlanta

Ok, after many hours of messing around, I found a solution until the devs fix this. I am going to go into more detail than might be necessary, but I am doing this just in case someone not as familiar with the console needs help. THIS ONLY WORKS FOR THE PC VERSION, UNLESS YOU CAN FIND A WAY TO OPEN THE CONSOLE IN THE 360 OR PS3 VERSIONS.
Protectron- 0002d934
Sentry Bot- 0002c11b

The placeatme command does not work, so you have to go through this set of commands: (in big town, near the junkyard, press ~ to open the console, then type these in. After each line, hit enter)

PRID 2d934
kill
resurrect
disable
enable
PRID 2c11b
kill
resurrect
disable
enable

After each enable command the console should write something about bot being set to Patrol. After exiting the console, you should now see both bots. Even though they are up and running, you still need to go up to each of them, select them with E, and choose repair bot. There you have it! Let me know if there are any more issues with this.