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The Queen of
Useless Robots
All hail the queen of shitty robots!
She who works on useless automation!
by Dion Greg Reyes
For Swedish inventor Simone Giertz, robots are
not entirely as useful as we think they are. There
are ways to utilize robots in everyday life to the
point that they are already useless. And this is
evident in her YouTube channel, filled with videos
of robots and their out-of-this-world applications,
that has already gathered enough followers
– more than 200,000 of them – to say that the
Internet is indeed a weird place.
Her shitty machines speak of her imagination
and abilities. She already considers making such
machines a job (she earns quite a fortune with
her ingenous robots) and never plans to stop from
manufacturing and posting about them. Using
only Arduino UNO boards, she has brought robots
and contraptions to a different dimension that no
other engineer could have ever thought of.
If you visit her YouTube channel, you can find
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