Meet the queen of useless robots: 'The internet is a weird place'

The Swedish inventor, called 'the queen of shitty robots', has attracted thousands of followers with her quirky contraptions for eating cereal or applying lipstick

Known as "the queen of shitty robots", Swedish inventor Simone Giertz builds robots to help with everyday activities - except, they don't work. Well, mechanically they work beautifully, but her robots show we've got a while to go before every part of our life is automated.

The 25-year-old lives on a houseboat in Stockholm and runs a highly successful YouTube channel with 124,000 subscribers, where she posts videos of her surreal and hilarious contraptions, such as robots to feed her cereal, put on her lipstick and chop vegetables.