The Cybersharks were produced at the Institute of Science as a military commission. They were developed exclusively to be forceful weapons for sieges on buildings. Specifically, the Cybersharks were designed by General Hawkins with the intention to raid Dr. Boynton's house and get Astro Boy (who was made partly with under the table army funds). Astro encounters a Cybershark in development, after being accidentally added to a queue of robots being given to the Cybershark for it to hone its powers on. Astro defeats it with ease, leaving the ruined Cybershark before running back to Dr. Boynton's lab.