Putting On The Bits

Putting On The Bits is the 4th level of RoboTraps and takes place in the robot production facility of Death Trap Incorporated. It concludes the Accident Appendix.

Level Design
The level has the five robots come out of the spawner without any space between them, walking towards the player side by side through a number of traps. They then turn around and walk away from the player on another path to the left. Both paths have several traps the player needs to switch on and off while they pass, but unlike in level 2, this alone is not enough to save all of them. Instead, buzz saws need to be used in a way to split the robots up and keep them from walking side by side.

Taking place in the robot production, this level features several conveyer belts on which the neutral robots Xerxes, Yves and Zero are being assembled.

Solution
Find the green lever in the middle and use it to let down the first Saw the robots will encounter. Switch it on again before the robots walk into the flames, and so on until they turn to go left. Let the Saw to your left go up and let the robots walk against it until Dennis is past the flamethrower grid. Quickly turn off the Saw and let Alice, Bob and Clark walk past it. As soon as they did, immediately switch it back on to avoid Dennis getting roasted by the huge flamethrower. Phew, done!

Trivia

 * The announcement on starting the level references the science fiction trope of machines rising against humans.
 * The level name references the song Puttin' on the Riz and the fact that robots are being assembled in this area.
 * Like in several other levels, it is considerably easier to save four of the five robots than it is to save all five of them. As usual in these cases, Dennis is the hardest robot to save.
 * Ernest cannot be destroyed at all in this area, meaning that this is one of few levels that have a minimum score higher than 0.
 * A huge flame thrower re-appears in the 16th level, Kingdom Harms.

Music
Professor Umlaut by Kevin MacLeod