When your life is goes like a clockwork; eat at this time, sleep and work and then repeat! You may feel that you are having a ‘robotic’ life!
No emotions and simply work! Which is what you think Robots may do!
It is interesting how the actual meaning of the word ROBOT when it was first used was FORCED LABOR!
Czech writer Karel Čapek introduced the word “robot” in his 1920/1921 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), but he credited his brother, Josef Čapek, with actually inventing the word!
The term comes from the Czech word robota, meaning “forced labor” or “drudgery”.
Karel Čapek intended to use “laboři” (from Latin labor) but his brother Josef suggested “roboti” (robots).
The narrative is set on an isolated island factory where a company, Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.), mass-produces artificial beings from synthetic organic matter to serve as tireless laborers for humanity.
These “robots” are physically humanlike but initially lack emotions, desires, and individual thought, designed solely for efficiency!
Then enters Helena, the daughter of a prominent industrialist and a representative of the League of Humanity who visits the factory to advocate for better treatment and “souls” for the robots! This presence of SOUL is dismissed by one and all!
Over time, and partially due to a scientist, Dr. Gall, experimenting with giving some robots emotions and pain at Helena’s request, the robots begin to develop consciousness, self-awareness, and a shared hatred for their human masters!
A global robot uprising ensues, leading to the systematic extermination of the human race!
The robots kill all humans except for one man, Alquist, a construction worker whom they spare because he “works with his hands like a robot”.
But then reality strikes them! The robots cannot reproduce because, well they are not humans!
The robots soon realize that they are facing their own extinction without the secret formula for their creation, which the human Helena had burned in a desperate attempt to stop the factory.
In the epilogue, Alquist is unable to recreate the formula. He discovers two advanced robots, Primus and a robot made in Helena’s image, who show signs of love and a willingness to sacrifice themselves for each other!
Recognizing these emotions as the spark of new life and true humanity, Alquist declares them the new “Adam and Eve,” offering a glimmer of hope for a new cycle of life to begin!
You may not know the play but the term ROBOT is now something which everyone knows!
Everyone also knows who is Arun Ahuja! Yes! Even you do! Only thing is that you know him by his more common name; Govinda!
Now start your Robotic routine and sleep!
Shubh ratri!
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