R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
by Karel Čapek
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), A Fantastic Melodrama in Three Acts and an Epilogue.
Helena Glory, as the daughter of a major industrial power's president, is a woman on a mission. She faces the island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, the world's leading company in robotic engineering. She is convinced that these new creations called robots they make are deserving of rights like humans do. Everyone else is convinced robots are nothing more than tools for human use. Is it so, or is a robot rebellion becoming a more likely prospect as the robots start to seem more intelligent than first thought?
Related Genres
DramaScience Fiction
Related Books
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells