R. U. R.
Author | : Karel Capek |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Puppet plays |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Karel Capek |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Puppet plays |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ivan Klíma |
Publisher | : Catbird Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Authors, Czech |
ISBN | : 9780945774532 |
And although originally written in Czech, the book was commissioned by Catbird Press and was therefore written with foreign readers in mind; in other words, no prior knowledge of Capek's writings or his milieu is required."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Karel Capek |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2004-03-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780141182087 |
A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot" Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922—garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produced as efficient laborers to serve man, Capek’s Robots are an android product—they remember everything but think of nothing new. But the Utopian life they provide ultimately lacks meaning, and the humans they serve stop reproducing. When the Robots revolt, killing all but one of their masters, they must strain to learn the secret of self-duplication. It is not until two Robots fall in love and are christened “Adam” and “Eve” by the last surviving human that Nature emerges triumphant. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author | : Karel Čapek |
Publisher | : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Czech drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : K. Reilly |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2011-08-26 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230347541 |
The automaton, known today as the robot, can be seen as a metaphor for the historical period in which it is explored. Chapters include examinations of Iconoclasm's fear that art might surpass nature, the Cartesian mind/body divide, automata as objects of courtly desire, the uncanny Olympia, and the revolutionary Robots in post-WWI drama.
Author | : Karel Čapek |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2021-04-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term robot.
Author | : Tim Taylor |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 121 |
Release | : 2020-07-30 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 3030482340 |
Is it possible to design robots and other machines that can reproduce and evolve? And, if so, what are the implications: for the machines, for ourselves, for our environment, and for the future of life on Earth and elsewhere? In this book the authors provide a chronological survey and comprehensive archive of the early history of thought about machine self-reproduction and evolution. They discuss contributions from philosophy, science fiction, science and engineering, and uncover many examples that have never been discussed in the Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life literature before now. In the final chapter they provide a synthesis of the concepts discussed, offer their views on the field’s future directions, and call for a broad community discussion about the significant implications of intelligent evolving machines. The book will be of interest to general readers, and a valuable resource for researchers, practitioners, and historians engaged with ideas in artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, and evolutionary computing.
Author | : E. R. Truitt |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2015-06-11 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0812246977 |
Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.
Author | : Everett Franklin Bleiler |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780873384162 |
In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.
Author | : Karel Čapek |
Publisher | : Catbird Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Czech drama |
ISBN | : 9780945774075 |
Capek's best plays, stories, and columns take us from the social contributions of clumsy people to dramatic meditations on mortality and commitment. The Reader includes a new and, at last, complete English translation of R.U.R., the play that introduced the literary robot.