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R.U.R.

R.U.R.
Karel Čapek Original title R.U.R. , Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Czech, 1920)

R.U.R. is a 1920 science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. R.U.R. stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti . The English phrase "Rossum's Universal Robots" has been used as a subtitle. It premiered on 25 January 1921 and introduced the word "robot" to the English language and to science fiction as a whole.R.U.R. quickly became influential after its publication. By 1923, it had been translated into thirty languages.The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people, called roboti , from synthetic organic matter. They are not exactly robots by the current definition of the term: they are living flesh and blood creatures rather than machinery and are closer to the modern idea of androids or replicants. They may be mistaken for humans and can think for themselves. They seem happy to work for humans at first, but a robot rebellion leads to the extinction of the human race. Čapek later took a different approach to the same theme in War with the Newts, in which non-humans become a servant class in human society.R.U.R. was successful in its time in Europe and North America.


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“Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.”

R.U.R. (1920)

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“It's always the same thing, one war after another”

R.U.R. (1920)

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