"Meet TARS3D, the brainchild of roboticist Aditya Sripada and his longtime collaborator Abhishek Warrier. What started as what Sripada calls "a desire to reconnect with the simple joy of building robots" has turned into something that looks like a collapsing sculpture decided to get up and move across your living room floor. It's weird, it's wonderful, and it's earning serious academic recognition."
"TARS3D features four independently articulated telescopic pillars that transform into an X-shape faster than you can say "Cooper, this is no time for caution." Pillars one and three rotate forward while pillars two and four swing back, and curved pads extend from the tops and bottoms of each pillar to serve as feet. The result? An eight-spoke double rimless wheel that actually rolls. According to Sripada, this is the only recreation of TARS that can genuinely both walk and roll."
TARS3D is a functional transformable robot that reproduces the walking-and-rolling capability of Interstellar's TARS. Designers Aditya Sripada and Abhishek Warrier built a device with four independently articulated telescopic pillars that reconfigure into an X-shaped, eight-spoke double rimless wheel. The pillars extend curved pads as feet for walking and rotate to form a rolling structure. The system achieves genuine walking and rolling modes and is claimed to be the only recreation capable of both. Sripada and Warrier documented the design and transformation mechanisms in a research paper. The project has attracted academic recognition and blends playful aesthetics with rigorous robotics engineering.
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