In this talk, Simone Giertz talks about her craft: building useless robots. Her inventions - for cutting vegetables, trimming hair, applying lipstick and more - are rarely (if ever) successful, and that's the point. "The real beauty of building useless things is realizing that you don't always know what the best answer is," Giertz says.

This book reports on a three-year project (2017-2019) funded by the International Science Council and involving eleven scientific partner organizations. The main goal of the project was to examine the gender gap in STEM disciplines from different perspectives, globally and across disciplines