TY - BOOK AU - Čapek,Karel AU - Playfair,Nigel AU - Selver,Paul TI - R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue AV - PG PY - 2019/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Robots -- Drama KW - Science fiction plays KW - Czech drama -- Translations into English N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R; Release date is 2019-03-22; Produced by Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" by Karel Čapek is a science fiction play written in 1920. It introduced the word "robot" to the English language. The play is set in a factory that produces artificial workers from synthetic organic matter—living beings of flesh and blood who serve humanity. When Helena arrives to advocate for robot liberation, she encounters a world transformed by these artificial beings. But the very universality of robots may present an unforeseen danger to humanity itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59112 ER -