Known as “the queen of shitty robots”, Swedish inventor Simone Giertz builds robots to help with everyday activities – except, they don’t work. Well, mechanically they work beautifully, but her robots show we’ve got a while to go before every part of our life is automated.
The 25-year-old lives on a houseboat in Stockholm and runs a highly successful YouTube channel with 124,000 subscribers, where she posts videos of her surreal and hilarious contraptions, such as robots to feed her cereal, put on her lipstick and chop vegetables.
Her most recent video – a head banging repeatedly against a keyboard – is to help argue on the internet.
She spoke with the Guardian about being a self-taught full-time shitty robot creator.
YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ