In particular, TARS never runs amok the way HAL does in 2001 or Skynet does in Terminator.This is not just because TARS has no survival instinct. An AI or robot doesn’t have to be selfish in ...

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.

The 'Interstellar' robot was actually a 200-pound puppet an actor carried on set. ... the film's two monolith-like robots TARS and CASE had hardly any digital effects.

He was also a cuboid metal robot with no resemblance to a human being, making him a very difficult choice for cosplayers. That didn’t stop Interstellar fan Iain Heath from giving it a go, though.

TARS is one of the few, if not the only, character that accesses creativity in his everyday lexicon: he is actively humorous, grabbing for irony and wit at every conceivable opportunity.

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 ...