Age: 27
Birthplace: Menlo Park, New Jersey

Tinker is Dr. Gavin’s oldest robotic assistant, and the first to use the GavinCo Super Positronic Neural Net CPU. Over the years, rather than replacing Tinker with newer, more sophisticated models, Dr. Gavin has chosen to upgrade Tinker, a tradition he has extended to all his robots. Dr. Gavin insists that all of his robots are thinking, feeling beings, and to scrap them would be unethical and unthinkable. It is for this reason that Dr. Gavin has refused to sell any of his Super Positronic robots or even allow them to operate outside the GavinCo labs until the United Nations passes a resolution guaranteeing robotic citizenship.

Tinker has been working at GavinCo since almost the very beginning, and he has been instrumental in the construction and refinement of all of Dr. Gavin’s inventions. He supervises all construction and maintenance work at the labs, and is by far the most knowledgeable about the various systems and technologies that Dr. Gavin creates.

Tinker has spent the last 5 years at a secret location somewhere in the solar system, working on Whoopie World, Dr. Gavin’s latest and greatest project. Little is known about the project or what it will be like, but with Tinker supervising the work, clearly it will be first-rate.