bA new translation of Karel 268apek's play iR.U.Ri.--which famously coined the term robot--and a collection of essays reflecting on the play's legacy from scientists and scholars who work in artificial life and robotics.b piKarel 268apek's R.U.R. and the Vision of Artificial Lifei offers a new, highly faithful translation by St283pn Simek of Czech novelist, playwright, and critic Karel 268apek's play iR.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robotsi, as well as twenty essays from contemporary writers on the 1920 play. iR.U.R.i is perhaps best known for first coining the term robot in Czech, irobotai means serfdom or arduous drudgery. The twenty essays in this new English edition, beautifully edited by Jitka 268ejkov, are selected from iRobot 100i, an edited collection in Czech with perspectives from 100 contemporary voices that was published in 2020 to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the play. p268apek's robots were autonomous beings, but biological, not mechanical, made of chemically synthesi