1. Simone Giertz has previously worked in mixed martial arts sports journalism and was an editor for Sweden's official website Sweden.
21 Facts About Simone Giertz
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At the age of 16, Simone Giertz spent a year in China as an exchange student.
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Simone Giertz stayed in Hefei, where she learned basic Mandarin.
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Simone Giertz studied engineering physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, a research university in Stockholm, Sweden, but dropped out after a year.
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Simone Giertz started creating self-described "shitty" inventions after studying at Hyper Island in Stockholm, where she was inspired by the local open-source hardware community.
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Simone Giertz has previously branded herself as "the queen of shitty robots" on her YouTube channel, where she employs deadpan humor to demonstrate mechanical robots of her own creation to automate everyday tasks; despite working from a purely mechanical standpoint, they often fall short of practical usefulness, for comic effect.
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Simone Giertz's creations have included an alarm clock that slaps the user, a lipstick applier, and one that shampoos the user's hair.
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Simone Giertz showcased several of these robots on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Around this time Simone Giertz had abandoned the concept of the "shitty robots", later explaining that it was no longer something she wanted to do, as she felt that the joke had played out.
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Simone Giertz's presentation was on "Why you should make useless things".
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Simone Giertz encouraged people to ask questions through creation, illustrating her ideas by presenting her own projects and robots.
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In June 2019, Simone Giertz announced that she and various other YouTube makers, including Laura Kampf, had converted a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck.
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Simone Giertz was invited to the unveiling of the Tesla's official pickup truck, the Cybertruck.
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In June 2020, Simone Giertz voiced a cartoon robot named CGO in Adventure Time: Distant Lands.
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Simone Giertz has an honourary doctorate from the University of Skovde, received in 2025.
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Simone Giertz lived on a houseboat in Sweden from 2012 to 2016.
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Simone Giertz announced on her channel in 2020 that she now lives in Los Angeles with her rescue dog Scraps.
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Simone Giertz is the daughter of television producer Nicola Soderlund and novelist and TV host Caroline Giertz, who Giertz describes as a "ghostbuster" due to her mother's work on paranormal reality TV show Det Okanda.
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Simone Giertz is a descendant of Lars Magnus Ericsson, founder of Ericsson.
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On January 18,2019, Simone Giertz reported that her tumor had returned.
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Simone Giertz is a vegan and "deeply identifies as an atheist".