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Simone Giertz

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Simone Luna Louise Söderlund Giertz is an American-based Swedish inventor and YouTuber who creates robot and maker videos. Her early videos in the 2010s involved robots that intentionally failed at everyday tasks, leading to the nickname "Queen of Shitty Robots". Later videos involved more useful projects, maintaining a comedic, rather than educational, tone. She has also designed products to sell, creating an online shop, the Yetch Store, in 2022.

Across 1 conversation, Simone Giertz ranges across robotics, human-technology interaction, design philosophy. Simone Giertz built her first hardware project, an iPhone case with retractable guitar strings, using capacitive touch and Bluetooth. Giertz's 'Queen of Sh*tty Robots' persona emerged from her Reddit posts, embracing failure as a creative force in engineering.

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