# Karel Čapek **Domain:** Literature / Artificial Life **Doc Type:** Person **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[R.U.R.]], [[Robot]], [[Synthetic Hosts]], [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] ## Definition Karel Čapek was a Czech writer whose 1920 play R.U.R. introduced robots as manufactured organic workers capable of recognizing their condition and overturning their assigned role. ## Bauhaus Architects Context Čapek belongs to the machine-intelligence and rights ontology because his robots are closer to synthetic biology and engineered persons than to metal automata. ## Backlinks - [[wiki/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] - [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]]