Interstellar-inspired TARS3D may be first such robot that both walks and rolls

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Scientists have created a real-life functional version of the TARS robot from the movie Interstellar – because we've already got a real-life functional version of Matthew McConaughey

If you want to build a fake HAL 9000, all you need is an LED, some carpentry skills, and any laptop accessing a talking AI. If you want to build your own R2D2, you’ll have a tougher job assembling a range of materials, motors, and electronics. But what if you wanted to make your own working version of TARS, that bizarre, blocky robot from Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar that looks like a stainless steel ATM with metal posts for legs sprouting from its shoulders?

Category: Robotics, Technology

Tags: Carnegie Mellon University, locomotion, Movies