He's also an accomplished cosplayer, as proven by his build of a full-size walking TARS robot from "Interstellar." The TARS is particularly challenging because it's not in a human shape.

We used to think of robots as looking like R2-D2 and C-3PO in Star Wars, or Rosie, the blue robot housekeeper in Hanna-Barbera’s 1960s-era TV cartoon The Jetsons. But two new movies that rocked ...

"Mostly, our digital work was confined to those moments where TARS and CASE, his twin robot, tend to do extraordinary things like turn into the waterwheel and move through the water to be able to ...

So TARS and CASE were built by the effects team as real machines operated by a puppeteer, with CGI used only to erase the human operator and add those functions that couldn't be achieved in real life.

An ‘Interstellar’ fan made a TARS robot costume that looks just like the real thing Surprisingly enough, this is basically how they made the robot in the actual movie. Gavia Baker-Whitelaw ...

You know, this surprisingly likable, 90% honest robot: Heath says it took him 100 hours over the course of 3 months to build his TARS costume for last month’s Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle ...

The robots of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, the walking boxes TARS and CASE, were two of my favorite characters from last year’s science fiction film. Having not paid much attention to the ...

Tesla Inc TSLA CEO Elon Musk on Friday teased making a robot resembling TARS from the Christopher Nolan movie Interstellar, in addition to its humanoid robot Optimus. What Happened: “Maybe Tesla ...

The robots, developed in a time of war, were just "as marooned in the moment as anyone else." Nolan's inspiration was a functional piece of equipment, not unlike a camera dolly or a light stand.

If you thought the robots of "Interstellar" were made on computers, you're wrong. TARS and CASE were giant working puppets on set. Paramount Pictures ...