How To Build The Best Bad Robots With Simone Giertz

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

YouTube’s queen of crappy robots, Simone Giertz, tells us how she got in the business of making the world’s best crappy robots, like an alarm clock that slaps you awake in the morning with a robotic arm, a robot that very terribly applies lipstick, and a vegetable chopper with 8-foot long knives.

In an interview with Nerdette hosts Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen, she talked about how building terrible robots is a constant learning experience.

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0:36.1	Trisha Bobita, if you could invent a robot, what would it be and why?
0:39.6	Well, in the vein of the person we're talking to this week,
0:45.4	I have a crappy robot idea. It's really more of a terrible invention idea that I've been told shouldn't be allowed to be a thing, but I still think it would be helpful for me. Go on. I think
0:51.3	that there should be an invisible fence like collar for humans that doubles as an alarm clock.
1:00.0	Oh my God.
1:01.0	So that when it goes off and you wake up because of it.
1:04.7	Yeah.
1:05.5	When it electrutes you?
1:06.9	Just a little, though.
1:08.2	It works sort of like a reverse invisible fence where like it knows what the parameters of your bed are.
1:13.8	It objects you from the bed?
1:15.0	So no, but if you try to get back into bed, it goes because it's time to get up.
1:20.3	So I think that an invisible fence around your bed so you can't go back to sleep and hit the snooze button.
1:26.7	I feel like that's really masochistic.
1:28.5	I mean, if it's that terrible, then why are we doing it to our dogs?
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