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Talk: Christian Gjørret

The R.U.R.-Play and U.S.

Imagine a version of R.U.R. where all the roles in the play were performed by LEGO MINDSTORMS robots that were built and programmed by school kids from a village in the outskirts of Czechia.

From R.U.R. to G.U.N.T.E.R.

“Making a man during ten years is insane. If you don’t do it faster than nature, it’s not worth wasting your time on it,” says Harry Domin, CEO of R.U.R. companies. From inventions to acronyms or abbreviated names, robotics is indebted to fiction and theater.

Playing Robots in America

The talk will address “Americanism” of Karel Čapek play R.U.R. (1920/2021). This characteristic was used by Czech theatre critiques to describe Čapek’s ability to write an adventurous sci-fi play, which resonated strongly in the American cultural context.

100 years later: Rossum’s robots still teach us how to make
self-aware machines

When reading Karel Čapek’s R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) today, one is astonished how full of contemporary or even visionary ideas the text is —100 years after its conception.

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