1920 · 88 min read · 22,000 words
by Karel Čapek
Čapek coined 'robot' from the Czech word for forced labor. A century later, we're building AI to replace human workers while debating whether those systems might develop something like consciousness. R.U.R. isn't science fiction anymore — it's a business plan and an ethics crisis happening simultaneously.
This text is in the public domain in the United States. Source: Project Gutenberg.
