Rur Rossums Universal Robots

Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.U.R. written by Karel Čapek and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation? R.U.R., or Rossum’s Universal Robots is a play written in 1920 by Karel Čapek, a Czech writer who wrote many plays and novels, many of them with science-fiction and dystopian themes. R.U.R. is perhaps the most well-known of these works in the English-speaking world because it brought the word “robot” into the language. “Robot” is derived from the Czech word meaning “worker.” The play is set in the island headquarters of the R.U.R. corporation. The corporation has been manufacturing artificial beings which resemble humans, but who are tireless workers. They can be mass-produced in large numbers and are being adopted as workers in many countries. In the first scene of the play, they are visited by a young woman, Helena Glory, who aspires to relieve the lot of the robots, who she sees as oppressed. However, in what must be the fastest seduction scene in all drama, she is wooed and agrees to marry Harry Domin, the factory manager, who she has just met. She still however aspires to improve the life of robots and find a way to give them souls. Ultimately, however, this admirable desire leads to disaster for humankind. The play was translated into English, and slightly abridged, by Paul Selver and Nigel Playfair in 1923. This version quickly became popular with both British and American audiences and was well received by critics.

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780141182087
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) written by Karel Capek and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot" Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek’s Robots are an android product—they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of self-duplication. It is not until two Robots fall in love and are christened “Adam” and “Eve” by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) written by Karel Čapek and published by Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page. This book was released on 1923 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486112209
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.U.R. written by Karel Capek and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two sets of identical twins provide the basis for ongoing incidents of mistaken identity, within a lively plot of quarrels, arrests, and a grand courtroom denouement. One of Shakespeare's earliest comedic efforts.

Author : Ivan Klíma
Publisher : Catbird Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945774532
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karel Čapek written by Ivan Klíma and published by Catbird Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And although originally written in Czech, the book was commissioned by Catbird Press and was therefore written with foreign readers in mind; in other words, no prior knowledge of Capek's writings or his milieu is required."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.U.R. Illustrated written by Karel Čapek and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term robot.

Author : K. Reilly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230347541
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History written by K. Reilly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire, the uncanny Olympia, and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.

Author : Tim Taylor
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030482340
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rise of the Self-Replicators written by Tim Taylor and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to design robots and other machines that can reproduce and evolve? And, if so, what are the implications: for the machines, for ourselves, for our environment, and for the future of life on Earth and elsewhere? In this book the authors provide a chronological survey and comprehensive archive of the early history of thought about machine self-reproduction and evolution. They discuss contributions from philosophy, science fiction, science and engineering, and uncover many examples that have never been discussed in the Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life literature before now. In the final chapter they provide a synthesis of the concepts discussed, offer their views on the field’s future directions, and call for a broad community discussion about the significant implications of intelligent evolving machines. The book will be of interest to general readers, and a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, and historians engaged with ideas in artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, and evolutionary computing.

Author : Karel Capek
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781517304713
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.u.r. written by Karel Capek and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Capek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term robot. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

Author : Karel Čapek
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) written by Karel Čapek and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" by Karel Čapek (translated by Nigel Playfair, Paul Selver). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.