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title: How they made that odd-looking robot move in Interstellar
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# [How they made that odd-looking robot move in Interstellar](https://www.redsharknews.com/production/item/2472-how-they-made-that-odd-looking-robot-move-in-interstellar)

 Written by [David Shapton](https://www.redsharknews.com/author/david-shapton) | Mar 27, 2015 2:59:00 PM

TARS in Interstellar

**How did they make that - *thing* - move?**

Interstellar is notable for many things. There's no doubt it's a fantastic film, nor that [much of the dialogue is inaudible](http://redshark.ebizontech.biz/index.php/2015/03/18/in-space-no-one-can-hear-dialogue/). And while it's a triumph for scientifically-informed computer generated imagery, it's also a landmark movie for taking new leaps in the art of manually animating articulated chunks of stainless steel and making them look like robots.

I must admit that I didn't instantly "get" the physicality of the TARS robot in Interstellar. It looked awkward and my initial reaction was: "why did they have to design a robot with all the physical grace of a vending machine".

But that was the point. Like some "game of life" self-evolving software, this awkward artifact found its own way to move, cope with challenging situations, and, eventually, become an integral part of life amongst the planets.

And I can't help feeling that this is in some ways analogous to the way we treat things we don't understand at first, here on planet Earth.

Here's a video that leaves no stone unturned in the quest to explain how they made those robots move in the film.

 

 

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