R.U.R.

by Karel Čapek

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  • 56 pages
  • Year: 1920
  • ~6h 12m
  • ★★★★★

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The development of artificial beings in huge quantities to act as workers and soldiers leads to disaster for mankind.

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R. U. R., or Rossum's Universal Robots is a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek, a Czech writer who wrote many plays and novels, many of them with science-fiction and dystopian themes. R. U. R. is perhaps the most well-known of these works in the English-speaking world because it brought the word "robot" into the language. "Robot" is derived from the Czech word meaning "worker."

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