“I had a lot of ideas and I figured it was a much better use of my time than scrolling away my life on Facebook,” said Simone Giertz.

This is Simone Giertz, aka the "Queen of Shitty Robots", a 25-year-old inventor from Stockholm, Sweden.

simonegiertz / Via instagram.com

The nickname came about when the "headlines [were] like 'Meet the Queen of Shitty Robots' [so] I decided to go full force with it 👑💩 . It goes very well with my inflated ego," she explained over email.

She's best known for her hugely popular YouTube channel Simone's Robots, which has over 170,000 subscribers.

Hair-washing robot

Simone Giertz / Via youtube.com

She said she came up with the idea of making ridiculous inventions while studying at an advertising school called Hyper Island. She came across an open-source hardware community and "immediately fell in love with it". She says the main tool she uses to help with her inventions is Google.

Giertz told BuzzFeed News: "I hadn't seen anyone invent shitty robots in such a digilent way before."

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