The play Rossum's Universal Robots clearly belongs to the 1920s but its satirical take on the meeting of humans and machines is all too relevant today Not many plays introduce a new word to the language. One that did was Karel ÄŒapek's RUR: Rossum's Universal Robots that had its premiere in Prague 100 years ago this month. Every time we use the word "robot" to denote a humanoid machine, it derives from ÄŒapek's p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM on January 7, 2021