I decided to animate the robot in this scene. To get the robotic effect, I cut the robot into parts, such as an upper arm and lower arm, Upper Leg Lower Leg, and foot. I then posed the robot into walking poses. I realized while working on the scene that this could be a good way to teach students how to animate a walk. The one mistake most students make is sliding the feet forward and backward. With this robotic walk, the feet a cut and pasted into exactly the same spot from frame to frame.
I had animated an extra half of a step but the animation was way too fast for such a lumbering robot. I decided to hold each frame for 3 frames and that slowed it down enough. The three frame animation is probably a bit clunkier than animating the scene on twos, but clunky is what I was going for.
I am now assembling the scene in After Effects and should have it in the final edit later today.