Humans had shown themselves to be obsolete long before they imagined artificial replacements.

WHAT A WONDERFUL ENLIGHTENING ESSAY. THANK YOU!

Being still the 25th and being from the country concerned, it bring all of it home. What an anniversary! Thank your for the essay, even better than in the high school - or at least updated with the development that have happened since, for the last half a century.

Great article - thanks David

The economists are always telling us we must keep our population growing or economic doom, but robots are going to take a good portion of all jobs, so they are just foolish. Only an economist and a lunatic believe in infinite growth on a finite Earth.

We are well on our way to the next step in human evolution; Homo Machinicus. This evolutionary step will allow us to go where mere biological bodies dare to tread!

Great recap of RUR and its 100th anniversary. Made me wonder what a contemporary like Nicola Tesla would have thought of it had he seen it.
Robotics don't have to worry about the heat or pollution. They can also keep humming along with no concern for memory, emotion or pain. They're the perfect humanoids!

Think you know your robots? Yea? Do you remember MISTER RIVETS?

I wish R.U.R. should be mandatory reading in school.

That’s cool and I never heard of that play. As I read the article, I was thinking that Asimov must have seen it or read it, because his work echoes a lot of it.