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

(Czech: Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti)

Motifs

• Robots

  First instance of the word Robot from a word for "serf labor". The Roboti are machines of artificial flesh, notably, prefiguring Blade Runner's replicants and other stories, rather than the mechanical robots more common now. The Roboti, initially exploited labor, rise up and eventually cause the extinction of the human race.