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Building a Motorized Leg Brace for a Three-Legged Dog

A Clever Table With a Mechanical Roll-Top That Reveals a Second Hidden Tabletop for Puzzles and Games

Simone Giertz Builds a Thoughtful Office Chair to Accommodate Herself and Her ‘Needy’ Dog Scraps
Not wanting to taxidermize herself into a bed for her beloved dog Scraps, self-proclaimed “queen of shitty robots” and engineer Simone Giertz, instead decided to…

Simone Giertz Turns Her Tesla Into a Pickup Truck
Simone Giertz, the prolific engineer who used to refer to herself as the

Simone Giertz Gives an Amusing TED Talk About the Psychological Importance of Making Useless Things
Simone Giertz, who calls herself the “Queen of Shitty Robots“, gave a really amusing, inspiring and honest TED talk about the importance of making useless…

Simone Giertz Creates a Magnificent Portable Mattress So She Can Take a Nap Wherever She Goes
Simone Giertz, the brilliant “Queen of Shitty Robots“, has created a magnificent portable mattress that straps onto her back so she can take a nap…

Simone Giertz Builds a Beer Serving Robot With Mixed and Messy Results
The “Queen of Shitty Robots” Simone Giertz built a beer-serving robot and had a friend attempt to use it to serve her a drink with…

MegaBots Inc. Puts a Giant Set of 500 Pound Steel Knife Arms on Their Giant Combat Robot
American robotics company MegaBots Inc. founders Gui Cavalcanti, Matt Oehrlein, and their talented team have put a giant set of 8-foot-long, 500 pound steel knife…

Simone Giertz Creates a Robot to Apply Over a Thousand Layers of Lipstick Onto Her Face
Wanting to be part of the 100-layer club, self-proclaimed “queen of shitty robots” and engineer Simone Giertz fashioned a basic robot to automatically apply lipstick…