Stanisław Lem wrote a short story collection titled “Fables for [these characters].” In one work, Busman is electrocuted while trying to bribe these characters into giving up control of the ship Ultimus. That play ends with Alquist calling two of these characters Adam and Eve. In that play, Helena Glory of the Humanity League burns the formula used to create these characters, before they storm the factory where the title character’s firm produces them. (10[1])These characters are governed by “three laws” (10[1])in (10[2])Isaac (10[4])Asimov (10[1])stories. For 10 points, invented by Rossum in the play R.U.R., what type of artificial beings are known by a term coined by Karel Çapek ■END■