(I finally figured out how I wanted to explain how the Droids work and why they don't function as combatants! Previous explanation was completely wrong from a technical standpoint!)
Carl hunkers down and begins fiddling with the Droids, tinkering with the settings to see if he can screw with the programming to allow him a more malleable design approach with it. After almost an hour of work, he's gotten to the point where he's confident in the programming, and then configures a pattern in which he hopes will repair the armour.
Accepting the order, the Droid then starts pushing the armour to a level section of ground. It's actually quite cute, watching the thing slowly push against it until the armour tips over, then back up just a little to get a better angle on the armour, then trying again. As it only has a little way to go, Carl is satisfied with watching this process, before it finally settles itself with the armour in front of it. Except that it doesn't do what Carl expected; instead, it roamed towards the treeline, and starts cutting away at the tree for a minute.
Before Carl can get to the Droid and interrupt it, it has returned to the armour and has begun cutting small lines in the armour. After cutting several lines, it moves to the hatch that had been cut off the droppod and begins cutting that. Carl, now having figured out what the Droid is doing, feels confident in just watching despite his comrades being thoroughly confused. It spends nearly 15 minutes cutting away at the droppod before returning to the armour and using a different coloured laser. The crew watch as the Droid is essentially spraying metal material into the grooves it had cut and then sealing that material with resin it had extracted from the tree. By the time it's finished, it has done such a fantastic job with Ms Martin's armour that the group estimates its actually more durable than its original specifications.
One hour has passed. If you wish to repair the other sets of armour, it will take 1 more hour; less time is required because the Droid already has most of the material it needs. It will, however, require a separate intelligence check for each armour; a failed check CAN result in doing irreparable damage to the armour, which would lower the DR value.
Ms Martin's Armour is now at 14!
(Also, for the record, all the creatures fought so far have been of bug-like appearance. GWG, expect a PM with a basic description of how the Droids work, and then you can embellish it or whatnot for describing to everyone else.)
The bugs are out again. They're hopping all over everything, and Ms Martin, who hasn't been wearing her armour, constantly has to attack the bugs to avoid being bit.