Vad är inspirationen eller prejudikatet för den mekaniska utformningen av TARS från Interstellar?

Jag hittade en intervju med Nolan som pratar om inspirationen bakom designen på en nyhetswebbplats . Han säger:

You have robots in this movie. What did you hope to achieve with those characters?

I wanted a more realistic approach to what a robot would be. I didn't even call them robots in the script. I referred to them as 'articulated machines' because I wanted my crew and everybody to stop thinking of your standard idea of a robot. I wanted to have a machine in the film that was like a piece of gear — very tough, very resilient — that had been designed for whatever purpose best suited it.

How did you approach the design of TARS? He's different from other robots we've seen in film.

As we pushed the concept further, it became a very minimalist appearance that disguises very complex functionality. My idea was to remove any trace of anthropomorphism, so it doesn't have a face. It doesn't have arms and legs. It does have a voice, and therefore a personality. The great Bill Irwin, who was puppeteering and voicing TARS, was able to give an inanimate, non-human object a personality.

Att röra på Xander kommentarer från monoliten i Space Odessey är en beskrivning på en annan webbplats . Produktionsdesignern Nathan Crowley säger:

Partially inspired by the iconic monolith from 2001, and with a more snarky personality than supercomputer HAL 9000's, TARS started out simply as a block of metal.

Nolan lägger också till 2001 jämförelse av inspiration mot robotarens design (från den första länken):

For their shape, were you inspired by the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey?

I think, in its science fiction context, inevitably your mind goes to that — and that's fine by me. Definitely, the spirit of 2001 hangs over the film. It was one of our aspirations to pay homage to that film. It also relates strongly to the architecture of Mies van der Rohe. As we honed in on the idea, I asked my designer (Nathan Crowley), who's a very big fan of modern architecture: What if we designed a robot as if Mie van der Rohe designed a robot? I think he really nailed it.

Jag såg filmen igår kväll och omedelbart tänkte på den här sexbenta spinnroboten i scenen där CASE räddar Dr Brand i vattnet på Miller's planet.