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R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)


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"R.U.R." (1921) is a play by Czech writer Karel Čapek. "R.U.R." stands for "Rossum's Universal Robots," and the play's claim to fame is that it introduced the term robot to the world. In Czech, robota means drudgery or servitude.


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