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Robot Entertainment is an American video game developer and publisher based in Plano, Texas. Its founders previously founded Ensemble Studios, which was shut down by Microsoft. Other members of the company founded another studio, Bonfire Studios (later renamed as Zynga Dallas upon acquisition by Zynga).
R.U.R. is a 1920 Science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. "R.U.R." stands for Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots, a phrase that has been used as a subtitle in English versions).
- Karel Čapek
- 1920
When Karel Capek ’s R.U.R. (the acronymic title is short for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) was first performed in 1921, it became a major international success and made Capek an internationally known playwright.
Feb 11, 2019 · On this day in 1938 R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots became the first sci-fi television show and influenced the medium for years to come.
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A play by Karel Čapek, set mostly in an island where they manufacture artificial people called robots, which was released in book form in 1920 and premiered in 1921. R.U.R. — a.k.a. Rossum's Universal Robots — tells a story we might be familiar with. Man makes robots. Robots overthrow man.
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R.U.R. was written in 1920, premiered in Prague early in 1921, was performed in New York in 1922, and published in English translation in 1923. The following year, G. B. Shaw and G. K. Chesterton were among those in London participating in a public discussion of the play.
