What were Čapek’s robots?
In the Čapek’s drama R.U.R. robots have distinct differences from robots today.
The play describes the activities of Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.) company that makes artificial people from man-made synthetic, organic matter.
These beings were created using the latest biology, chemistry and physiology, and are meant to “lack everything but a soul”. They are more artificial biological organisms than machines.
Initially they seem happy to serve humans, but that changes with time, and at the end a hostile robots revolt points to the extinction of the human race, perhaps to be saved by a male robot and a female robot acting as Adam and Eve.
R.U.R. premiered in January 1921, and quickly became famous and influential in both Europe and North America. By 1923, it had been translated into thirty languages and was considered as one of the "classic titles" of inter-war science fiction.
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