When Interstellar hit the big screen in 2014, one of the standout stars wasn’t Matthew McConaughey or Anne Hathaway—it was TARS, the witty robot that won billions of hearts worldwide.

Of all the fictional robots created for the silver screen, Interstellar’s TARS still has one of the most unique, and bizarre, designs. It was brought to life for the film using a combination of ...

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.

In an interview, Interstellar writer-director Christopher Nolan discussed his vision of the robots, their artificial intelligence and importance to the film’s story: You have robots in this movie.

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 should built it.