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In Chapek’s R.U.R. according to the book robots really become “human” only at the very end. But what is it to become human? Even though robots considered themselves to be superior to humans, throughout the conflict between robots and humans, robots were trying everything to be more human. They tried to be violent, they tried to wage war, they tried anything that they saw humans did in history. I think the main …

…its own and in many other science fiction writings robots become self-aware without the help of humans and usually due to prolonged exposure to humans and to time or to life. Chapek was trying to convey the concept of evolution in robots with the help of the humans. In conclusion, I think Chapek wanted the transformation from robots to humans to be ambiguous, so we can make our own conclusions about how it actually happened.