Simone Giertz

Simone Luna Louise Söderlund Giertz (born: ), or more commonly Simone Giertz, is a Swedish YouTuber who makes videos on robotics and robot-building, and is a self-proclaimed "inventor", television host, and robot enthusiast. She was also the previous co-editor of the Sweden's official website, www.sweden.se.https://sweden.se/ Her robots have a tendency to not function very well, https://www.inquisitr.com/2850229/simone-giertz-the-patron-saint-of-bad-robots/ earning her the title, "Queen of S****y Robots".
==Personal life==
Simone was born on 1st November 1990 in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied engineering physics at college but dropped out after a year. The idea for creating useless inventions came when she was at Hyper Island, an open-source technology community. After that, she built a toothbrush machine for a kids' show, which after being rejected, was uploaded to YouTube, thus effectively starting her YouTube career.https://www.businessinsider.com/simone-giertzs-shitty-robots-youtube-interview-2016-6
Simone continued to make these robots, and in 2016 she joined Tested, collaborating with Adam Savage on her first project with them, the Popcorn Feeding Machinehttps://makezine.com/2016/04/07/simone-giertz-joins-tested-builds-popcorn-helmet/. The next year, she also hosted the TV show Manick, with Nisse Hallberg, on the Swedish channel "TV6". 
In April 2018, she created a robot to advertise the HBO TV show Westworld, which she promptly threw out in June 2020, calling it "weird".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXDtJFFNXUg&t=463s She also gave a TED Talk.
==Truckla==
In 2019, Simone announced that along with 3 other vehicle enthusiasts, she was going to build a Tesla pickup truck out of a Tesla Model 3. This was due to the fact that Simone was becoming too impatient for the revealing of the Cybertruck, with then, was only a theory and had not been released yet. She then made a 31-minute "how we built it" video and a parody commercial for the same truck. 
==Brain surgery==
On April 30, 2018, Simone announced via YouTube that she had been diagnosed with a noncancerous brain tumor.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpa4kp4lK60&t=155s After surgery to remove the grade I meningioma on May 30, 2018, she has continued to post humorous and upbeat accounts of her post-surgery progress, including photos of her "potential super-villain scar" and an announcement on her Patreon account. On January 18, 2019, She reported that her tumor had returned. After a course of radiation treatments, She returned to the channel, presenting a project which converted her head alignment mask into a work of art.
==Trivia==
*Simone is the descendant of Lars Magnus Ericsson, the founder of Ericsson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW5qLcitPro
*Simone has a dog called "Scraps". She built a doghouse that can take selfies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvG6V_BXsTE&t=1s and a chair for disabled pets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYqz1F6eAVU&t=82s.
*Simone was a resident of San Francisco from 2016 till 2020. After that, she moved to Los Angeles.
*At the age of 16, Simone spent a year in China as an exchange student. During her stay in China she also made an appearance on a Chinese sitcom called Huan Xi Long Xia Dang (Chinese: 欢喜龙虾档, The Happy Lobster Restaurant), where she played Catherine, an American girl who married a Chinese man. She later said that she felt embarrassed by her experience on the sitcom.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apNOankkG3A
*She also briefly studied engineering physics at the Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan), a research university in Stockholm, Sweden.
*Simone is a fan of The Lord Of The Rings media franchise.
*Simone does not like regular gasoline-powered cars.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKv_N0IDS2A&t=214s
*Simone was the voice actor of CGO in the first episode of Adventure Time: Distant Lands.
*Simone also once had a houseboat named "Alfred" before selling it in 2017.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX9DIEPQnr4
==Quotes==
*Inventor and breaker of things.
*Can you please hold for a moment while I mentally pee my pants?
*I want to be a...business...mantis...shrimp.
*Why is there smoke?
*I didn't pick my brain not because I wanted it, but that's the only I one I had access to.
*Elon Musk, this is me challenging you to making the world's first functional Tesla pickup truck.
*Hey! I'm in Sweden!
*I can assure you that this is not a sex toy...
==List of inventions==
==References==
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