It was a play about human like robots written way back in the 1920's or so IIRC, Anton Chekov(sp?).
I used to read a comic way back when about a guy that fought renegade robots.
Sort of close, it was written (IIRC) by a Czech, not Chekov. I think his name was something like Karel Capek, the "C" having some sort of Czech inflection mark on it that I think means it was a 'Ch' sound, like we pronounce 'Which,' but I don't know much about Slavic lingo variations on the Roman alphabet and I could be misremembering the mark anyway.
Used to have a paperback copy of it around, a 60s-era paperback with both a novelette and the play in it that my Dad had picked up somewhere, though the book had some title with 'Robots' in it rather than R. U. R.