Joey

Joey is Robert Foster's robot. He constructed him while in the Gap with scrap deposited by helicopters from Union City. In his first incarnation Joey had a cylindrical head but by the years it was upgraded to a round shape. This shell was destroyed when Stephen Reich attacked the camp, and in his last words he asked Robert to make his next body faster. Robert salvaged his circuit board.

Foster only carries its circuit board, which can be placed in (and, once the shell is destroyed, removed from) various robot shells. Joey can be quite bad-tempered, and will often criticize the shells in which Foster loads it.


 * Joey's next shell is a cleaning droid foudn among the junk of the recycling plant. According to Joey it has equipment for buffing and polishing, and a retractable probe. With a hint from Howard Hobbins he can give a spark to the Transporter robot, and to pick electronic locks with card slots. It also has helicopter rotors allowing it to fly.
 * In the Keating Memorial Pipe Company Foster disables the machinery and loosens the shell of a welder robot, which Joey loves (he just wears the new shell over the previous one). With that, Joey is able to disonnect the alarm system from the fuse box in the storeroom, allowing Foster to enter. Later Joey can cut the wire outside the building, and also the anchor of the statue at the Anchor insurance. That shell is destroyed when they reach the ground leel.
 * In the underground base, Foster loads the cards into a medical droid intended to maintain LINC's biological veins. Because that shell has a limited syntactic processor, Joey speaks differently, using expressions like "affirmative" and "negative" and is less argumentative. He inspects the tank room where the androids are grown, and opens the nutrient tank tap, aiding to destroy Walter-14. That shell is destroyed when Foster opens the security door and Gallagher assaults them; but Joey manages to kill Gallagher with a lance.
 * Soon after, Foster will load it into an almost complete Walter android who had R&M functions loaded but no character data. As being closer than any other time to a human, he feels softs and vulnerable. Robert thinks a new name is more appropriate and calls him Ken, after some dorks he could think of. Ken firstly helps Robert open a door by jointly using a hand panel, but his rubber arm is stuck and needs to be amputated. He will take the place of his father in LINC.