In this joyful, heartfelt talk featuring demos of her wonderfully wacky creations, Simone Giertz shares her craft: making useless robots. Her inventions — designed to chop vegetables, cut hair, apply lipstick and more — rarely (if ever) succeed, and that's the point. "The true beauty of making useless things [is] this acknowledgment that you don't always know what the best answer is," Giertz says. "It turns off that voice in your head that tells you that you know exactly how the world works. Maybe a toothbrush helmet isn't the answer, but at least you're asking the question."
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Simone!!! we’re rooting for you girl!!
Nice quirky TED talk, just like your channel, love it, keep up the good work
GET WELL SOON SIMON
Setu Choudhary, dude, I’m fine. Go wish Simone instead.
Simone is awesome! She’s such a strong, , fun, intelligent, and independent person, who I know will overcome her latest health issue. NOTHING can stop her! x
Loved this talk 🙂
gonna go and sub!!!!
Go sub on Patreon! Simone has a brain tumour and won’t be able to make videos for a while…
Go sub my friend. A real hidden gem of youtube. Smart, funny and beautiful
Hope you get full recovery!!
Simone is incredible because she has rediscovered the artistic/creative side of engineer that is lost on so many. I love what your doing for Engineering Simone and I really hope you have a good recovery from your upcoming surgery that you talked about in your last video 🙂
MasterMazeProductions you seem like a nice person
Simone we hope you are doing well. We are all praying for your speedy recovery!
Never clicked on a video so fast. Hopefully your surgery will go well.
xWood4000 I really hope she’d get out of it without a single damage
When would be her surgery?
Pickolas Cage May 30th, she said it in her behind the scenes TED video on her channel.
Charbel Alam I hope so too.
30/5, she said it in the end of her latest video
YAY SIMONE!
look the shity robots queen
Happy to have people like Simone represent the YouTube community that we’re all a part of 🙂
SDG Danny .
“Useless machine”. That’s not the phrase I recall you using….
Jim Fortune haha, lol
Indeed! I believe there WAS another name. Hummmm
Yes, yes, was it perhaps… inoperative gadgets?
Carbon2861996
No….. Something else…. Shifty Fembots?
Shelty rowboats?
8:31 “Cockporn” for “popcorn” again, bless her 🙂 Get well, Simone. The world needs you.
Oh the layers of weird. She’s the best.
I admire her because she actually wants to use her brain to do things that are constructive and learn about things. It seems so many today are content to let everyone else do their thinking for them.