Jackbot: Partial Eclipse

Funny, I was actually about to go back and suggest trying to make it your companion. I mean, it sort of figures they'd leave a primarily noncombat robot in charge of things, right?

How useful would the primate be? Aside from the whole must-be-getting-water-from-somewhere, I mean. Are we talking agile chimp, brawny gorilla, horrible mutated thing that only tangentially resembles an ape...?