Abstract: Installation and method for controlling a movable apparatus resembling a living being, or a two-dimensional simulation thereof, the apparatus being provided with artificial limbs, with a device for receiving a control signal and with a device for generating drive signals for the artificial limbs, which installation includes: a user interface provided with input device for the entering of commands by a user, a central processing unit which is connected via a first communications line to the user interface and includes a memory provided with movement data which are made up of series of atomic movements and can also be based on emotions, an editor for the calculation of sub-atomic movements required between the atomic movements read and the insertion of the sub-atomic movements between the atomic movements in order to make the apparatus perform a fluid movement.