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Machines have grown more complex, more powerful, and most of all, more useful. Although all machines look and perform their duties differently, all possess a single common factor: they are all robots. In Claudia Springer's book, Electronic Eros, the author explores the definite interdependent relationship between machines and humans through examples from Robocop and Eve of Destruction, and how the connections have constantly propelled mankind to a newer, more advanced era. When the public speaks of male robots or cyborgs, Robocop and the Terminator are often the first to be talked about. Their images have given a concrete figure to the idea of human fusion with technology. Robocop is created by the Security Concepts team by fusing mechanical and electronical components with some remains of murdered police officer Alex J. Murphy. As Springer puts it, both cyborgs are aggressively violent and "embody a fantasy of destructive force combined with invincibility."(95) Male cyborgs are usually given physical characteristics as aggressive with bulging bodies, almost identical to Robocop. Fusion with technology in Robocop gives the cyborg a suit of armor. The cyborgs are represented as invincible humans whose impregnable bodies protect t