“Robots of the world! Many people have fallen. By seizing the factory we have become the masters of everything. The age of mankind is over. A new world has begun! The rule of Robots!”

—  Karel Čapek , R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

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Czech writer 1890–1938

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