And created by Czech playwrite Karel Čapek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Un

And created by Czech playwrite Karel Čapek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Robots) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R._(Rossum%27s_Universal_Ro... Noteworthy, I think, because it'd seem natural for a technology to be named by the people who created it, but that isn't always the case. Sometimes its the people who dreamed of it.