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.
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