![]() ![]() These robots become cheap and hugely convenient, lowering production costs and the need for anyone to work. ![]() Set in the year 2000, Čapek writes of a world where robots, which unlike our modern conceptions of metal and electronics instead consist of make-do humans grown from living tissue, are the spitting image of their creator, apart from the fact that they are unable to feel emotion. And while some aspects of the play itself are dated, its moral and philosophical explorations of automation and pursuit of profit remain pertinent. Now, a century on, a new exhibition housed in the writer’s summer residence in Stará Huť, south of Prague, is focusing on Čapek’s influential masterpiece. Back in 1920, the science fiction drama Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti or Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R), written by Czech Karel Čapek successfully captivated audiences around the globe for its dystopian reflection on humanity, industrialisation and technology, as well as coining the word ‘robot’. ![]()
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