Karel Capek

R.U.R. Illustrated Karel Capek

R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel ?apek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term robot. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people, called robotic (robots), from synthetic organic matter. They are living creatures of artificial flesh and blood rather than machinery, so they more closely follow the modern concept of androids