Rossum's Universal Robots


	Rossum's Universal Robots
JohnWaterman
8-25-2008 9:14 AM
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The first use of the term Robot. The complete play
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a6b009ad-f158-4baf-839f-8a890f7b4a90/9372589D-9F56-43DE-9057-E4DCBDBEA761/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots)&oldid=226387174" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots)&oldid=226387174" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots)&oldid=226387174"><P><I><B>R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)</B></I> is a <A title="Science fiction" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction">science fiction</A> play by <A title="Karel Čapek" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek">Karel Čapek</A>. It premiered in <A title="1921 in literature" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_in_literature">1921</A> and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term <I><A title="Robot" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot">robot</A></I>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots)&oldid=226387174"><DIV class="thumbcaption">
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A scene in the play, showing three <A title="Robot" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot">robots.</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Capek_play.jpg&oldid=227495725" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Capek_play.jpg&oldid=227495725" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:Capek_play.jpg&oldid=227495725"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/12BE84A8-BE48-4205-A1D3-A28FF299DD87" alt="Image:Capek play.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.paleofuture.com/2007/05/robot-is-terrible-creature-1922.html" href="http://www.paleofuture.com/2007/05/robot-is-terrible-creature-1922.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.paleofuture.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.paleofuture.com/2007/05/robot-is-terrible-creature-1922.html"><DIV>
The October 16, 1922 edition of The Bee (Danville, Virginia) ran a syndicated story about the <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Capek">Karel Capek</A> play <I>R.U.R.</I> The play introduced the world to the word "robot" from the Czech "robota," which literally means "forced work." Below are excerpts as well as the article as it appeared in The Bee.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.paleofuture.com/2007/05/robot-is-terrible-creature-1922.html"><DIV>If any industrial genius, like Henry Ford, ever turns his energies to the manufacture of Robots we're all goners, as the saying is.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.paleofuture.com/2007/05/robot-is-terrible-creature-1922.html">The Robot is a terrible creature of synthetic flesh, bone and skin. He is in the image of man and has all the attributes of man except spirituality and laziness</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.paleofuture.com/2008/02/rur-1922.html" href="http://www.paleofuture.com/2008/02/rur-1922.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.paleofuture.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.paleofuture.com/2008/02/rur-1922.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.paleofuture.com/img/7674A8C7-BEEC-4EA6-B591-08A55B773E9C" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/" href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/" style="font-size: 11px;">ebooks.adelaide.edu.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/">The complete work</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/"><H1>R.U.R.</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/"><H3>(Rossum´s Universal Robots)</H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/"><H5>A play in introductory scene and three acts</H5></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/"><H4>by</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/"><H2>Karel Čapek</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/"><H4><A href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/frontmatter.html">DRAMATIS PERSONAE</A></H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/"><H4><A href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/act0.html">Introductory Scene</A></H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/"><H4><A href="http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/act1.html">ACT ONE</A></H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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