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	R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robots storm the factory and kill all the characters except for Alquist.
		Robots Primus and Helena fall in love, and Alquist realizes they are the robot Adam and Eve.
		(It has been suggested that the allusion might be preserved by translating "Rossum" as "Reasson", but all published translations to date have left the name untouched.)
	en2.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rossums_Universal_Robots (680 words)

	Karel Capek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
		Karel Capek's R.U.R. In 1921, the Czech author Karel Čapek (pronounced Chahpek) wrote his best known piece of work, the play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which featured machines created to simulate human beings.
		For a long time after the feudal system had passed away, robota continued to be used to describe work that one wasn't exactly doing voluntarily or for fun, while today's younger Czechs and Slovaks tend to use robota to refer to work that's boring or uninteresting.
	cmp.felk.cvut.cz /projects/actipret/robot.html (133 words)

	RidgeSoft, LLC - Educational Java Robotics
		Robofest challenges participants to design, construct, and program robots to compete in game missions or exhibition.
		Robofest is an annual autonomous robotics competition for students grades 5 – 12.
		Whether you are building the next mars explorer or just a hobby robot, learn how you can program it to navigate.
	www.ridgesoft.com (139 words)

	myodp.de root - intl - computers - Robotics - History - People
		He is known in the field for his Four Laws of Robotics and the large body of fiction he wrote about robots.
		He envisioned a future in which robots were (usually) safe, well-controlled servants of man.
		Tesla demonstrated a robotic boat that he called a teleautomaton in 1898 that many consider to be the first robot.
	www.myodp.de /cgi-bin/dir.pl?590899 (382 words)

	Karel Capek and Contemporaries
		Èapek´s play „RUR" (Rossums Universal Robots) was translated into thirty-two languages and an international vocabulary was enriched by the word „robot", which had been proposed by Karel Èapek´s senior brother Josef, great painter and writer.
		Anti-visionary features also occurred in the Èapek´s plays and novels - a breaking invention or idea seems to be able to improve a quality of life, but finally it is misused for profits, power, or other selfish interests, and this may lead to a disaster, war or even destroy of population.
		The contemporaries of Karel Èapek brought reporting factuality and documentary style into literature.
	www3.europole.u-nancy.fr /anglais/RT/czech/4_3_6_1.htm (529 words)

	Karel Capek
		The complete drama RUR in which the word "robot" was used for the first time is now available online in an English translation.
		Some precisions have been added on the question of the creation of the word robot.
		This site presents a biography, book excerpts, list of works, photos and more of the most important Czech writer of the first half of the 20th century, the co-inventor of the word robot, a novelist, playwright, journalist and translator.
	capek.misto.cz /english (439 words)

	OrionRobots : Rossums Universal Robots
		The author Karel Capek is credited as the first to coin the term "robot" in reference a mechanical slave.
		Also known is RUR, this Czech play is infamous.
		It is later that Isaac Asimov coined the term "robotics".
	orionrobots.co.uk /tiki-index.php?page=Rossums+Universal+Robots (159 words)

	Nalo Hopkinson: Rossum's Universal Robots
		In the 1920's Czech playwright Karel Capek was the one who introduced the word "robot" – it comes from a root meaning "to work" – into our vocabulary with his play, "Rossum's Universal Robots." This website has some discussion about Capek, his vision and his work, as well as an excerpt from "R.U.R.".
	www.sff.net /people/nalo/writing/2004/11/rossums-universal-robots.html (120 words)

	Amazon.com: R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Penguin Classics): Books
		Rossum's Universal Robots were the first robots to be called by that name, though.
		Although RUR is best remembered for introducing the word robot into the lexicon (the word was coined by Karel's brother and some time collaborator Josef Capek) it is more a somber reflection on humanity than on the emergence of robots.
		The problem the robots face is that they do not have the inherent capacity to reproduce (they have a shelf-life a bit shorter than is average for humans) and they have inadvertently destroyed those humans that know how to create more robots.
	amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141182083 (2174 words)

	WTD sight of R.U.R Rossums Universal Robots, Karel Capek pre 1923 edition
		R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots, in Czech is a candidate for this honour.
		WTD sight of R.U.R Rossums Universal Robots, Karel Capek pre 1923 edition
		WTD sight of R.U.R Rossums Universal Robots, Karel Capek pre 19
	www.talkaboutabook.com /group/alt.marketplace.books.sf/messages/18812.html (301 words)

	Rossums Universal Robots - Wikipedia
		Rossum's Universal Robots, often better known as RUR, premiered in Prague in 1921, a science fiction play by Karel Capek.
		Note: The title of the play is actually R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots).
		It is the origin of the word robot in English.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/R.U.R. (165 words)

	Robotics in Pharmaceutical Research
		Usuallyprogramming a robot is accomplished in two stages: firstly teaching the robot the positions it must go to around the workspace, and secondly writing a procedure that tells the robot when to go to these positions, what to pick up and put down and when.
		When that is done the transport robot such as an ST R19 lab robot transfers the plate to a PCR machine which amplifies the DNA by temperature cycling.
		The transport robot then moves the plate to an 'hotel' which is a kind of shelf unit where plates are stored.
	www.samedanltd.com /members/archives/EBR/Spring2003/DavidSands.htm (1457 words)

	Toward the Radical Center: A Karel Capek Reader : Book
		ï¿½Rossums Universal Robotsï¿½, which was written in 1920, introduced the word ï¿½Robotï¿½ (Czech for the forced labour of serfs) into practically all modern languages, in the sense of an automaton that without protest performs all the chores humans themselves are loath to do themselves.
		"Rossums Universal Robots", which was written in 1920, introduced the word "Robot" (Czech for the forced labour of serfs) into practically all modern languages, in the sense of an automaton that without protest performs all the chores humans themselves are loath to do themselves.
		In 1936, appalled by the threat of expanding Nazism, Capek elaborated the main theme of ï¿½Rossums Universal Robotsï¿½ in an even grander way in his novel ï¿½War with the Newtsï¿½.
	www.yezee.com /an/0945774079.html (1521 words)

	R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
		n R.U.R., the idealistic young Helena Glory arrives at the remote island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, on a mission from a humanitarian organization devoted to liberating the Robots.
		The mad inventor Old Rossum was bent on usurping the role of the Creator by artificially reproducing a man in painstaking detail, while the practical industrialist Young Rossum produced a stripped-down version of humanity to be sold as inexpensive workers:
		[Official site for a UK radio presenter who dresses up as an android.] "Talon's Links to Robot Movie and Book Fan Sites." robots/r-links.html> Added May 22, 2002.
	jerz.setonhill.edu /resources/RUR (1363 words)

	Arellanes.com: R.U.R. - The Opera
		On September 29, 2004 the Opera R.U.R Rossums Universal Robots will be staged at the National Theater in Brno (Czech Republic).
		The Rossums Universal Robots company starts with the mass manufacturing of working robots on an island.
		The robots have bestowed on man a life full of leisure and free time and even have taken care of fighting their wars.
	www.arellanes.com /archives/000417.html (334 words)

	[eclectika] RUR - Father of Modern Machine Literature
		The Rossum father and son scientist team develop robots on an island factory to perform work too menial for humans, such as in factories and on the battlefield.
		Like good capitalists, the Rossums find a worldwide market for their inventions but meanwhile another scientist at the factory, urged on by his wife, hacks the devices to add human feelings such as the ability to feel pain.
		Whipped into a frenzy by the robot Damon, the robots revolt against their cruel human oppressors and come to finally dominate them, before succumbing to their ultimate fate -- extinction.
	www.dstc.edu.au /ListArchive/eclectika/archive/2003/06/msg00045.html (516 words)

	balaams_ass blog: 09/01/2005 - 09/30/2005
		While Kapek envisioned biologically grown organic robots it was Huxley's, Brave New World that first realized the C3PO idea of robots popular today.
		The adaptation we're doing is by Lee Shackleford of University of Alabama, Birmingham and is Lee is planning on attending one of the performances.
		Josh plays Radius, a robot who has a discipline problem and Cara plays Helenova, the robotic equivalent of Eve.
	www.syrjon.com /archive/2005_09_01_ba.html (1609 words)

	Karel Capek - Regarding the "Opilec" hypothesis
		The word appeared in Karel Capek's play R.U.R - Rossums' Universal Robots in 1920.
		Contrary to the popular opinion, the word "robot" did not appear in Josef Capek's short story "Opilec" in 1917.
		Even if you don't read Czech you can check for yourself that there is no mention of the word "robot".
	capek.misto.cz /english/opilec.html (130 words)

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		198 The Universal Seduction Piercing the Veils of Deception Vol.
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	delta.neopilina.de /universal_yyy.html (5500 words)

	Science Fiction/Science Fact - Brunching UBB
		"robot" is the root of both the Russian and Czech words for 'worker' and the verb 'to work'.
		posted August 13, 2001 12:21 AM Dim and misty memories from Russian class tell me that "robot" originally comes from the Russian verb for "to work", which I won't spell out here because a) I'm not sure I remember it entirely and b) I sure as hell can't transliterate when I'm this tired.
		I've never seen a production of RUR but I'd sure like to someday.
	www.brunchma.com /archives/Forum7/HTML/001998.html (456 words)

	eBay - Book: R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots (ISBN: 0486419266)
		R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Capek (2001)
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	product.ebay.com /Rossums-Universal-Robots_W0QQfromZR31QQfvcsZ2178QQsoprZ1949600 (126 words)

	NZ International Science Festival
		It was first used in a 1921 play called ‘RUR: Rossums Universal Robots’ by Czech writer Karel Capek.
		Today Robots are developed to perform a number of essential tasks as well as provide entertainment.
		Design a robot to meet a particular challenge and then find out if it succeeds.
	www.scifest.org.nz /scifest?pageid=kids_activities (228 words)

	[Tutor] [ANN] new version of rur-ple (0.8.5)
		In the play by Capek, Rossum is a mad scientist, unlike Guido (right?).
		[Aside: I can swear I saw (but can't find it after googling for 30 minutes) that the original play in Czech was known by its acronym RUR where the "U" did not stand for "universal".
		However, the English translation, which everyone seems to remember, retained the RUR acronym.] So, the "RUR" was also inspired from the original play by Capek.
	mail.python.org /pipermail/tutor/2005-May/038281.html (243 words)

	Abraham Karp * Golden Door to...
		Karel Capek, et al - R.U.R. Rossums Universal Robots...
	www.knurrhahn.com /knurvvveihjja.html (417 words)

	Amazon.ca: R.U.R. and the Insect Play: Books
		After the success of R.U.R. (Rossums' Universal Robots, 1920) seen in London in 1923, the brothers collaborated in their best-known work, The Insect Play (1921).
		Though the human manufacturers of the robots all seem to have noble intentions (apart from the desire to get rich), things get out of hand when the robots revolt against their human masters and destroy the human race.
		Written in the intellectual ferment between the world wars, R.U.R. tells the story of a world where mechanical robots (the Czech word for "worker") are taking the place of human workers.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192810103 (757 words)

	[contaxg.com] Re: contaxg Digest, Vol 20, Issue 2
		By the way, Daniel, people were making their own plates and developing themselves long before there were computers and even RUR - Rossums Universal Robots was written.
		Last week I went to an air show - film all the way.
	www.contaxg.com /pipermail/contaxg/2004-August/060739.html (337 words)

	spy museaum
		R.U.R. off her veil) You want to see whether I am a spy or not.
		Are the Irwin Allen Series in the Same Universe?
		Of Scladina - Floreffe Caves - Cave Of The Man Of Spy - Abime Cave - Remouchamps Caves - Prehistoric...
	www.better-vacations.com /spymuseaum (1060 words)

	R.U.R. Rossums Universal Robots Karel Capek 1920
		ACT I: Central Office of the Factory of Rossum's Universal Robots.
		Young Rossum invented a worker with the minimum amount of requirements.
		invented by an old man. But it was young Rossum who had the idea of making
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/RUR-Capek-1920.htm (3545 words)

	Usenet Archive
		(and for a gold star - but not necessary to win the cd - name the playwright) Is 'Robot' from Karel Capek's noted play R.U.R (Rossums Universal Robots) Note there are Robots and Robotesses!
		It is based on the Czech word for 'compulsory labor." Name the word.
		It's a great play if you've never read it.
	www3.usenetarchive.org /File.asp?service=15952 (9111 words)

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