Karel Čapek's Robots Celebrate 100 Year Anniversary
11.01.2021 / 12:31 | Aktualizováno: 11.01.2021 / 12:47
In January 1921 the Czech writer Karel Capek created a worldwide hit with his 'comedy of science and truth' R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). BBC3 radio prepared a special programme about the play and the original book of Čapek.
Ken Hollings examines the creation and legacy of a play that both gifted the world the word Robot and began an enduring cliché that intelligent machines will rise up and destroy us.
The programme is available online: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000r39c