R2D2 and the Protocol droid are cut completely, but there is a reason why I left it. If you cut from a group of characters to the same characters quickly in a different setting and much later, it makes the transition much more jarring and noticeable to the audience. Although, I don't really care for the scene with the droids, it was necessary to avoid this disturbance in the audience's sense of time and space in the film. If we followed them through the factory scene, that's different, but I cut that out. Instead, they both just walk into a trap.