<story><title>Simone Giertz makes a living creating shitty robots (2016) [video]</title><url>https://qz.com/695832/this-robotics-hobbyist-makes-a-living-creating-shitty-robots/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>computerex</author><text>&amp;gt; She studied engineering, programming, and robotics&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I can&amp;#x27;t actually find any evidence that she graduated with even a bachelors for any of the topics you listed. It appears that she makes a living by being primarily an entertainer, not an engineer. In this context, I think the titles &amp;quot;robotics hobbyist&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;robot enthusiast&amp;quot; are appropriate and accurate.</text></item><item><author>cantrip</author><text>She studied engineering, programming, and robotics, she makes a living making robots full time, and yet the article title calls her a &amp;quot;robotics hobbyist&amp;quot; and the article says she&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;robot enthusiast&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>leogiertz</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think that she would refer to herself as an engineer, but more as an enthusiast. Nothing to do with sexism but more that she&amp;#x27;s not that interested in working with engineery stuff like reliability, fault tolerances etc.&lt;p&gt;She didn&amp;#x27;t graduate from KTH since &amp;quot;Teknisk Fysik&amp;quot; wasn&amp;#x27;t her thing and to be honest I don&amp;#x27;t think that it would&amp;#x27;ve made any difference. I would say that she&amp;#x27;s doing quite ok. :)&lt;p&gt;Source: I&amp;#x27;m her brother.</text></comment>
<story><title>Simone Giertz makes a living creating shitty robots (2016) [video]</title><url>https://qz.com/695832/this-robotics-hobbyist-makes-a-living-creating-shitty-robots/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>computerex</author><text>&amp;gt; She studied engineering, programming, and robotics&lt;p&gt;To be honest, I can&amp;#x27;t actually find any evidence that she graduated with even a bachelors for any of the topics you listed. It appears that she makes a living by being primarily an entertainer, not an engineer. In this context, I think the titles &amp;quot;robotics hobbyist&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;robot enthusiast&amp;quot; are appropriate and accurate.</text></item><item><author>cantrip</author><text>She studied engineering, programming, and robotics, she makes a living making robots full time, and yet the article title calls her a &amp;quot;robotics hobbyist&amp;quot; and the article says she&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;robot enthusiast&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dnautics</author><text>She did not graduate with those degrees (know her personally).  She makes no bones about making her living as an entertainer, but she is a very competent designer, builder, and hacker.  Is she an engineer, probably not, because she wouldn&amp;#x27;t build things to a formal spec and report tolerances and fail rates, etc, but that&amp;#x27;s not the end all and be all of creation.</text></comment>