In Real Steel, 'Atom' is the discarded robot that's discovered and trained by 'Charlie Kenton' (Hugh Jackman) and his son 'Max' (Dakota Goyo) to become the people's champion by taking on the title holder of the World Robot Boxing crown.
Life-size animatronic robots Atom
and Noisy Boy from Real Steel
A combination of CGI special effects and animatronics were used to bring the boxing robots to life in the futuristic movie.
These robots on display at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on October 12, 2011, were created by Animatronic Supervisor, John Rosengrant and the people at Legacy Effects.
Real Steel's Atom robot
Production Designer Tom Meyers was responsible for the design of 'Atom', the main robot in the movie, along with concept artists Victor Martinez who worked on different ideas for his face and Drew Leung who refined the overall look of the humanoid robot.
Atom's bright eyes and featureless face really can be quite expressive in the film, and that scarred face also makes it looks like he has a smile at times.
Real Steel movie poster
In the movie Atom literally saves Max's life when he's unearthed in a junkyard whilst the father and son are searching for usable robotic scraps to build a new fighting robot.
Atom robot from Real Steel on display
After Max cleans him up, they discover Atom is an old G2 (Generation 2) sparring partner robot with shadow boxing capabilities, meaning he can mimic what he sees.
Later Max integrates Noisy Boy's vocal command control into Atom's systems, which allows Charlie Kenton to give him fight instructions via a headset.
Real Steel Atom robot poster
Even though he's just a robot, it's also implied there's more to Atom that just wiring and components and maybe there's a spark of life, or artificial intelligence, lurking within that armoured shell.
Original Real Steel robots featured in the movie
If you like Atom, be sure to check out the Noisy Boy animatronic from Real Steel in more detail.
Plus be sure to check out these original costumes and props from Real Steel on display too.
Real Steel movie poster
Can atom the life size prop be re-designed to actually box?Another question, is atom for sale.If he is does he come with the voice recognition headset.
ReplyDeleteI do not think any of the props are for sale because they were hand made especially for the movie and they were not mass produced so that means you can only special order them
Deleteit would be SOOOOOOOOO cool if in real steel 2 Atom wouldbe remade with new and beter materials but just the outside. And maybe make him cooler and put a mauhawk on his head, but keep the color light blue.
ReplyDeleteseriously a mohawk thats stupid he is not midas
DeleteHow long do you think it would be until we actually had robots like Atom and Noisy Boy to actually box? would we use our boxing arenas and turn them into robot boxing arenas, or would we have to make them a lot bigger for the robots to fit?
ReplyDeleteAtom rocks my sox! and do you think we will ever get him to move, and even batter, shadow people?
ReplyDeletehow much do you think it costed to build just one of these robots?
ReplyDeletewho did you have build these robots!.....I want one!!!:)
ReplyDeleteJohn Rosengrant and the people at Legacy Effects built these awesome robots!!
ReplyDeletei have wathched the movie amillion times
ReplyDeleteI wathced the segment on how the robots were built. It is on the D.V.D. I wathched it and it was AWSOME.
ReplyDeleteP.S. THAT IS MY COMMENT UP ABOVE I CAN'T BEALIVE IT GOT PUBLISHED AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I have always been a huge fan of robots such as those shows were robots that are real tear each other a part with their own weapons such as saws hammers flippers and much more
ReplyDeleteHUGE FAN OF THIS MOVIE I WISH THESE ROBOTS WERE REAL
I agree, i dont have the dvd or any thing, but i have the movie on my tablet and ive seen i trillion times
ReplyDeletei cannot wait for part 2 and im 36yrs old its such a great family movie!!!
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't they put Blac Jac in the movie ??? He was so cool !
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