Hi there, i am a really devoted fan of Fallout since F3 but i have to clue about the Sentry Bots. I have found one on a junk yard and studied the Terminal nearby which obviously controls it. Probably a stupid question to some of you but what do i do with it? I activated it but it doesnt move, there is still the option to activate a defense protocol in the Terminal... Will it attack me? )) there are no enemies nearby by now...so any tips for me?

I found a protectron last night, I was able to reprogram him a medic. I cant remember all of the reprogram options available, there were quite a few. He did heal me, I'll have to look when I get home where I found him at.

I assume defense protocol only activates the droid when an enemy is within a certain range to defend whatever area it is in while you are gone.

If you look under activate defense protocol menu, there is a list of places, and it is implied that you can get him to go and clean them out, but I have not tried it. I did find that you can remove the holotape from the terminal and use if from the pip-boy.

Is this at the robot junkyard you mean?

Nothing happens unless you attack it. You can direct it to another location via the terminal and it voices that it's finding the nav route, but it doesn't go anywhere. At least, it didn't in the few minutes I waited around. Maybe it does something later on??

yeah correct, its the Robot Disposal ..... something. just east of Sanctuary, at the top end of the map on the hill. Thanks for the answers! will give it a try.

Found that, too.

I didn't touch him because I feared for my life, but if he's actually able to contribute to settlements, that's a sweet bonus to defense.

I made him self destruct. Could have possibly built a base around him. Would have been great defense. Also, ...spoiler? Or no......

this is a Fat Man location.

You need to load them with a personality, stuff like station security, construction worker, medical responder.

There are several, not really sure what the all do, well station security goes around shooting stuff while constructio woker goes around telling people to put on hard hats, apart from that...?