An impromptu reading of Karel Čapek's 1920's play Rossum's Universal Robots (R.U.R) by DET students
Channel: Eric Paulos
Date: 2019-11-19

As we approach the 100 year anniversary of the word "robot" coined by Karel Čapek's in his 1920's play Rossum's Universal Robots (R.U.R), I asked students in the Designing Emerging Technologies (DET) course here at UC Berkeley to read a small excerpt of the play in class today as we prepare for our "robots as creative material" module.  Amazing job by Sophia Batchel, Stephanie Daffara, Robert Hoogsteden, Doug Pan, and Tina Taleb for reading the piece I handed them without any time to prepare!  Thank you all for helping make some magic happen today in class! 

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