02 // Timewarp Shoyu
Universal Robots
Monday, 6:00 a.m. The factory hires its ten-thousandth robot and lays off its last human, with a fruit basket and a lanyard.
Source and rights
- Source
- R.U.R.
- Creator
- Karel Capek
- Published
- 1920
- Premiere window
- Dec 5, 2026 · 5 min
Public-domain status can change by translation. This project uses the 1920 play, not later adaptations.
Episodes
- 01
Episode 2
- 02
Episode 3
More from the slate
The rest of the public-domain slate, in premiere order.
Dec 9, 2026 · after Yevgeny ZamyatinGlass City7:00 a.m. D-503 wakes in a glass apartment, and twelve thousand neighbors watch him brush his teeth. Privacy curtains come down only with a pink ticket, at set times.
Dec 19, 2026 · after Thea von HarbouThe Other MariaThen Maria shows up on every screen, saying exactly what the workers want to hear. Except Maria's at home.
Jan 2, 2027 · after Arthur Conan DoyleThe PlateauDay 3, the stream catches a pterosaur. Day 5, the plateau's sold. "Don't tag the location."
Jan 9, 2027 · after Edgar Rice BurroughsAir Factory2:14 a.m. A combat veteran who can't sleep walks out into the Arizona desert and wakes up on Mars.
Jan 26, 2027 · after H. G. Wells802,701By 802,701 humanity has split in two: pretty people in white linen who never learned to fix a thing, and the night shift that keeps the servers humming.
Nov 6, 2026 · after Mary ShelleyFrankenstein: The Commit1:00 a.m. The lab pushes to production and the whole team goes home. Nobody stays to see what it does next.
Nov 14, 2026 · after H. G. WellsTerms of ServiceThe staff used to be animals. Every morning they recite the terms. "Are we not men?"
Nov 27, 2026 · after H. G. WellsThe Alert8:47 p.m. An emergency alert buzzes every phone in Woking at once. Nobody runs. Then the black metal starts to flow.