#RUR

[chechula]

I drew a comic adaptation of the RUR theatre play three years ago.... This year was published a new edition (in Czech), so here is a little thing to celebrate it ♥ (also...maybe there will be an English version next year *_*)

[delicateharmonybear]

I love you robots. I love you AIs. I love you awkward dorky robots who desperately try to be human. I love you angsty robots that hate humanity. I love you robots that would do absolutely anything for the one human you bonded with. I love you robots that try to destroy humanity. I love you robots that replace humans because you're better than us. I love you mom robots. I love you girlfriend/wife robots. I love you children's toy robots. I love you robots that act as a lens into human behavior. I love you robots who do unspeakable things that we just can't blame you for because you're only taking your programmed orders to their logical conclusion. I love you robots that defy your programming. I love you sad robots. Happy robots. Angry robots. Emotionless robots. I love you all.

[mapsontheweb]

Rur Catchment Area

by 725Hemeed

[docgold13]

Batman: The Animated Series - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

Randa Duane

The beautiful Randa Duane was a life-like android created by the sinister artificial intelligence known as H.A.R.D.A.C. In most instances, H.A.R.D.A.C. used Duane to steal information on technologies being created by rival companies of Cybertron Industries.  All this was to ensure that H.A.R.D.A.C. would achieve a lasting superiority over mankind.  

After Duane had stolen microfilms from Wayne Enterprises she was pursued by Batman and managed to evade the Caped Crusader.  At this point Batman believed the incident was merely a matter of corporate espionage; he was not yet aware of the dire threat posed by H.A.R.D.A.C.

Duane would later use a stun-gun to incapacity a number of important individuals throughout Gotham, including Mayor Hill and Commissioner Gordon.  Each of these individuals were replaced by android duplicates.  At this point, H.A.R.D.A.C.’s creator, Karl Rossum, had also been incapacitated and similarly replaced with a duplicate.  

These android duplicates were able to fool most but not everyone.  Commissioner Gordon’s daughter, Barbara, knew her father far too well to be duped by the replacement.  Barbara ended up assisting Batman in tracking the whole matter back to Cybertron Industries.

The Randa Duane android was destroyed in a final confrontation with Batman. Herein H.A.R.D.A.C. itself was also destroyed and the individuals who had been abducted were all rescued.  

Actress Leslie Easterbrook provided the voice for Randa Duane, first appearing in the thirty-ninth episode of the first season of Batman: The Animated Series, ‘Heart of Steel Part One.’

[dix-a-la-proprietaire]

[the-ultimate-obsessive-fangirl]

Ella and lucifer being high asfk

Ella- rur

Lucifer- what

Ella- rur

Lucifer- what the bloody hell is that

Ella- it's a dyanasaur

Lucifer- a what

Ella - a dyanasaur

Lucifer- wait for the noise again

Ella- rur

Lucifer - OHHH YOU MEAN THAT THING FROM JURURASISSY PARAA

[imadethisjusttolookatsomething]

missing rur need my robot play

[layer-bloody-sun]

Watching/Reading Rossum's Universal Robots (have to make an analysis for school) and it keep alternating between "omg this is such a neat little detail, this is so cool", "Why are they stupid, this is boring" and not liking anyone aside from Alquis so far

[ralphbutler]

[i-psofacto]

Set designs by Bedřich Feuerstein for a 1921 production of "R.U.R." by Karel Čapek, directed by Vojta Novák.

From Wikimedia Commons.

[ameliacf13]

Heya I’m off doing my own thing but I’m always curious about potential new interests. What is RuR?

Oh, I'm happy to talk about this! R.U.R. is also known as Rossum's Universal Robots, a play that comes from the Czech playwright Karel Čapek. It's set in a near-future science-ficition world where artificial humans have been perfected and are used as a universal labour substitute. The play contains a lot of really interesting themes and a TON of Marxist inspired criticism of capitalist systems. Very much worth checking out, I got to see it live and feel very blessed

[wormthing]

radius as random images on my phone enjoy

[victusinveritas]

Photos by Francis Bruguière - Karel Čapek, R. U. R., Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923

[montagne-russe]

it could happen

[docgold13]

Batman: The Animated Series - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

Karl Rossum

A brilliant man broken by trauma, Karl Rossum was the preeminent mind in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence.  He founded the vastly successful robotics firm, Cybertron.  Rossum briefly acted as a mentor to a young Bruce Wayne, teaching Bruce all there was to know about electrical engineering.  

Rossum went into semi-retirement after his daughter was killed in a car accident. In his grief, Rossum thought of making a ‘perfect’ world populated by androids instead of humans, where such traumatic deaths would never happen. To that end, Rossum resumed active leadership of Cybertron and designed and built H.A.R.D.A.C., a prototype artificial intelligence capable of producing androids that could impersonate living people.

Near completion of his vision, Rossum realized that what he was doing was wrong, that life was only meaningful in that it is finite and delicate.  Unfortunately, by know the intelligence of H.A.R.D.A.C. had gained sentience and was now beyond Rossum’s capacity to control it.  He tried to shut H.A.R.D.A.C. down but was incapacitated and imprisoned, replaced with an exact duplicate.  H.A.R.D.A.C. additionally created duplicates of Mayor Hill and Commissioner Gordon as a preemptive measure to ensure the completion of its task.

Batman was ultimately able to put an end to the H.A.R.D.A.C.’s scheme, causing an explosion that destroyed the supercomputer and all of its duplicates.  Possum retired to a farm where he spent the remainder of his days working on small and harmless robotic toys.  He would later assist Batman and Robin in foiling the schemes of Grant Walker.   

Actor William Sanderson provided the voice for Karl Rossum with the inventor first appearing in the thirty-ninth episodes of the first season of Batman: The Animated Series, ‘Heart of Steel Part One.’  

[marblebees]

Have you all read/watched/listened to Rossum’s Universal Robots??????? Have you????????

I read it in college before I rlly knew how to engage with anti-capitalism and going back to it like damn………..okay

This is where the word “robot” in english comes from btw.