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 (10[1])of these characters Adam and Eve. In that play, (10[2])Helena Glory of the Humanity League burns the formula used to create these characters, (10[1])before they storm the factory where the title character’s firm produces them. These characters are governed by “three laws” in Isaac (10[2])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■