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Christopher Nolan didn’t want a “humanoid” robot fo Interstellar. He asked for something radically different: a functional machine, almost military, far from science fiction clichés. The design of TARS (and CASE) was inspired by a mix of Kubrick’s monolith (2001: A Space Odyssey) and modular tools, with a brutalist style.

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