Need A Useless Robot? Simone Giertz Is The Queen

And while they're technically adept -- they do work -- they don't actually work very well. Yahtch has found fame online via her useless robots, including one that's been viewed more than a million times online. Yahtch tells NPR she wants other people to get into robotics. "To me, the goal of building useless and ridiculous robots is more -- I mean, in some way, it's like a personal goal because I think it's really fun, and I think having fun is super important to create things," she says. That's evidenced by her accompanying "making of" videos to some of the machines (there's some salty language in this video).