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  2. R.U.R. - Wikipedia

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    Helena, the daughter of the president of a major industrial power, arrives at the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots. Here, she meets Domin, the General Manager of R.U.R., who relates to her the history of the company. Rossum had come to the island in 1920 to study marine biology. In 1932, Rossum had invented a substance like organic ...

  3. R.U.R. (film) - Wikipedia

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    The film follows a young woman, Helena, who arrives at the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots. Helena plots to give the robots souls and emancipate them from capitalist exploitation, a decision that quickly leads to unintended destruction. Proyas adapted the screenplay from the 1920 Czech play of the same name by Karel Čapek.

  4. Karel Čapek - Wikipedia

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    He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920), which introduced the word robot. [1] [2] He also wrote many politically charged works dealing with the social turmoil of his time.

  5. 12 of the Best Robot Movies, for When You Want to Binge ... - AOL

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    As you can tell, robots come in many forms, and that includes creepy robotic dolls. The 2022 horror movie M3GAN stars Allison Williams as an engineer at a toy company who creates an AI doll. Prior ...

  6. List of fictional robots and androids - Wikipedia

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    Coppélia, a life-size dancing doll in the ballet of the same name, choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Léo Delibes (1870); The word robot comes from Karel Čapek's play, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), written in 1920 in Czech and first performed in 1921.

  7. History of robots - Wikipedia

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    The term "robot" was first used in a play published by the Czech Karel Čapek in 1920. R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) was a satire, robots were manufactured biological beings that performed all unpleasant manual labor. [50]

  8. Liar! (short story) - Wikipedia

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    Although the word "robot" was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), Asimov's story "Liar!" contains the first recorded use of the word " robotics " according to the Oxford English Dictionary .

  9. January 1921 - Wikipedia

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    "R.U.R." was "Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti", the name of the company, described in the opening exposition as having been created by Dr. Rossum to build artificial servants. Rendered in English as "Rossum's Universal Robots", R.U.R. was translated by Paul Selver for performance in the United States by New York's Theatre Guild at the Garrick ...