(Rossum's Universal Robots) by Czech writer
Karel Capek, is the first to use the word "robot." Before Capek used this term in R.
In 1920, Czech science fiction writer
Karel Capek first used the word "robot" in his play "Rossum's Universal Robots" which decries a futuristic world of humanlike beings or "artificial people".
These are well-known lines from
Karel Capek's R.U.R, a 1920 science fiction play.
In
Karel Capek's famous play The Makropulos Affair, adapted into an opera by Janaek, a woman who discovers the elixir of eternal life is bored to death -- unfortunately for her, not literally -- after a mere 300 years.
The Czech intellectual
Karel Capek wrote during one of those traumatic times--just after the unspeakable devastation of World War I, just before the ascension of the Third Reich, and during the rise of communism (a philosophy he virulently opposed).
Karel Capek, the author of the successful stage play on which the opera is based, himself described it as "over-garrulous," and although Janacek by then was an experienced and fearless adapter of stage plays, it needed especially heavy cutting to turn it into a serviceable opera libretto.
An impressive theatre line-up includes Knaive Theatre's War With The Newts, a bold contemporary re-imagining of
Karel Capek's apocalyptic science-fiction satire (21/22 July); puppetry, live music and scary monsters collide in Mumblecrust Theatre's The Tale Of The Cockatrice (July 22); and Edinburgh Fringe favourites The Showstoppers will create and perform a brand new musical based entirely on audience suggestions (July 26).
In 1921, "R.U.R." ("Rossum's Universal Robots"), a play by
Karel Capek, introduced us to the "robot" - humanoid androids made of synthetic organic matter - and helped shaped this idea for modern audiences.
While the idea of "artificial intelligence" had been speculated about in fiction for centuries--as far back as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or
Karel Capek's R.U.R.
After the initial translation of Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' came the translation of the stories of another Czech writer,
Karel Capek. These were meant for the students and teachers in Bikol 'who need[ed] to realize the beauty and splendor of their local languages in Bikol,' Cordero said.
The term 'robot' was first coined when
Karel Capek granted factory androids the ability to perform the work of 'two-and-a-half humans' in his 1920s play.