the remake of the "I, Robot" episode from the original 1964 series, the business where the robot Adam Link is built is named "Rossum Hall Robotics". The 1999 Blake's 7 radio play The Syndeton Experiment included a character named Dr. Rossum who turned humans into robots. In the "Fear of a Bot Planet" episode of the animated science fiction TV series Futurama, the Planet Express crew is ordered to make a delivery on a planet called "Chapek 9", which is inhabited solely by robots. In Howard Chaykin's Time² graphic novels, Rossum's Universal Robots is a powerful corporation and maker of robots. In Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, when Wolff wakes Chalmers, she has been reading a copy of R.U.R. in her bed. This presages the fact that she is later revealed to be a gynoid. In the 2016 video game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, R.U.R. is performed in an underground theater in a dystopian Prague by an "augmented" (cyborg) woman who believes herself to be the robot Helena. In the 2018 British alternative history drama Agatha and the Truth of Murder, Agatha is seen reading R.U.R. to her daughter Rosalind as a bedtime story. In the 2021 movie Mother/Android, the play R.U.R. of Karel %C4%8Capek comes up. In the movie, Arthur, an AI programmer, turns to be an android. See also AI takeover The Steam Man of the Prairies (1868), an early American depiction of a "mechanical man" Tik-Tok, L. Frank Baum's earlier depiction (1907) of a similar entity Detroit: Become Human (2018), a narrative video game built around a rebellion by androids who become sentient. References Informational notes Citations External links R.U.R. in Czech from Project Gutenberg Audio extracts from the SCI-FI-LONDON adaptation Karel Čapek bio. Online facsimile version of the 1920 first edition in Czech. 1921 plays Artificial intelligence in fiction Plays by Karel Čapek Works about robots Science fiction theatre