Android servants go from bot to worse in a new adaptation of 'Rossum's Universal Robots,' a futuristic, century-old play ...

Foothill Theatre Arts is tackling the topic of AI with the West Coast premiere of “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” running ...

How long ago do you think the word robot was coined? Around the atomic age after World War II? If so, you’d be surprised that ...

In 1920, Karel apek’s early science fiction classic R.U.R. coined the term “robot” and looked ahead to the wonders and dangers of artificial intelligence decades before it was cool to worry about such ...

Brendan Hutt (L) and Alex George in R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) at City Lit Theater Credit: Steve Graue Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) popularized the word “robot” in its 1921 ...

We have long been fascinated with our own image. In the 1920s play Rossum’s Universal Robots, Czech writer Karel Čapek coined ...

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In a world where mass produced automatons outnumber humans, a robotic revolution is inevitable. With an eclectic cast, Mid-Plains Community College brings together MPCC students, high school students ...

Between City Lit’s new adaptation of Karel Čapek’s 1921 sci-fi classic, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), and Goodman’s current staging of Jordan Harrison’s The Antiquities, the end of humanity in ...

The word “robot” was not used in literature until 1920, when Czech playwright Karel Capek wrote the play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) that debuted a year later and made it to New York City in ...