Simone Giertz is a self-professed maker of crummy robots. She's made a drone that cuts hair, a robot that applies her lipstick and the Wake-Up machine, a DIY wall-mounted robot alarm clock with a rubber arm, that slaps her awake in the morning. While she admits that none of her robots are meant to do their job well, Simone's fascination for technology and electronics have made her a role model for young robot makers worldwide. So what does this queen of bad robots make of our increasingly robotics-reliant society? And does she recognise the possible pitfalls of human-robot interactions in her day-to-day work?

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).