There is a Digital Trip you can activate, called Alone. In it, you must free numerous districts. The robots within each district cannot pass beyond certain barriers or they will die. Use that fact to your advantage. Enter a district, wait for a group of robots to spawn, then lead them on a chase that ends outside the barrier. When they follow you, they'll die as they attempt to pass through the barrier. You don't receive any points or equipment as a reward, but there's a delay before more robots will appear and you can use that to engage in more meaningful activities within the districts, before the threat level increases again. That makes it much easier to approach the generators.