A new translation of Karel Capek's play R.U.R . -- which famously coined the term "robot" -- and a collection of essays reflecting on the play's legacy from scientists and scholars who work in artificial life and robotics. Karel Capek's "R.U.R." and the Vision of Artificial Life offers a new, highly faithful translation by `tep?n `imek of Czech novelist, playwright, and critic Karel Capek's pla…
R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Life offers a new, highly faithful translation by Štěpán Šimek of Czech novelist, playwright, and critic Karel Čapek's play R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots, as well as twenty essays from contemporary writers on the 1920 play. R.U.R. is perhaps best known for first coining the term “robot” (in Czech, robota means serfdom or arduous drudgery). The tw…