states: “If you can’t do it faster than nature, what’s the point?” Let’s not forget this is 1920, the engineer is king and speed, machines, factories and efficiency are all the rage. After all, as the present central director of R.U.R. Old man Rossum was a biologist who failed to create actual humans in his laboratory engineer son Rossum invented the living labor machine, the Robot, a natural progression of production (son) following discovery (father). – Rossum’s Universal Robots – mass produced, human-like machines to perform manual labor and function as servants.ġ. And, yes, this play marks the very first appearance of the term “Robot” as in R.U.R. Here are ten philosophical insights embedded in the extended prologue to this highly inventive 1920 science fiction three-act play by Czechoslovakian author Karel Čapek.
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