"I programmed this grandmother and she blinked. It was my little carol." "There's a lot of good online resources on how to build robots," says the roboticist. Do people come to you with robotics questions or do they try to discover the answers themselves? I think it's if people ask very specific questions like, hey, how did you solve this problem? Or like, where is this part from?" She adds: "It's such a weird thing for me to sometimes be treated as an authority in roboticism or in cosmology"
YouTube's Sh*tty Robots machine-maker, very funny human being, professional tinkerer and potential astronaut Simone Giertz hops in Alie's car to hang out in a sketchy Hollywood alley and chat. Topics covered: the definition of a robot, artificial intelligence, the gateway to her thirst for engineering power, plastic animals, and topless grandmas.
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