--- title: "Deranged Scheme Proposes Mounting Queen’s Coffin on Robot Arm" description: "Mourners from across the country might have to queue over 24 hours just to get a glimpse of the Queen's coffin, but one artist claims to have a solution." date: "2022-09-17" modified: "2022-09-17" authors: - name: "Frank Landymore" job_title: "Contributing Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/flandymore" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/deranged-scheme-queen-coffin-robot-arm" categories: - "Robotics" - "Robots and Machines" tags: - "robotics" - "the digest" - "the queen" --- # Deranged Scheme Proposes Mounting Queen’s Coffin on Robot Arm ![Mourners from across the country might have to queue over 24 hours just to get a glimpse of the Queen's coffin, but one artist claims to have a solution.]() *\Image: Richard Party\* ## Coffin Drop There are few things as quintessentially English as queues and the Queen. Queen Elizabeth II’s death, at the ripe old age of 96, and her impending funeral, has brought those two corners of English life together outside Westminster Hall, resulting in a line over five miles long to view and pay respects to her coffin. Saying it’s become a logistical nightmare would be an understatement. When the waiting time reached 14 hours earlier this Friday, officials had to temporarily [suspend the queue]() for six hours. It’s now been reopened, but for the poor suckers at the back of the line, they’ve been [warned]() it might take them a full 24 hours — or longer — before they finally reach the Queen’s coffin. Surely there must be a way to speed up the process. ## Royal Robot On that front, the Internet has once again delivered, with artist Richard Parry tweeting a detailed and deeply tongue-in-cheek video of a deranged solution: mounting the Queen’s coffin on a robotic arm. https://twitter.com/_RichardParry_/status/1570706799975862272 "The Queen has a lot more surface area than we're giving her credit for," says Parry in the video. Parry proposes mounting the Queen's coffin on a Kawasaki robotic arm, suspending her midair. And to prudently to take advantage of the extra surface area the coffin's aerial position provides, Parry envisions an absurd system of a two level intersection of moving walkways housed in glass tunnels. So while the hordes of people stream by at a predicted 80 mourners per second, the robot arm revolves the Queen's coffin midair, gracefully parading her around for all to see on both levels. That's about as efficient as it gets, folks. It's the kind of innovative absurdity we love to see, but might have the Queen turning in her grave. Revolving, even. **More on the Queen:** [*Nobody Is Sure What Queen Elizabeth II Died From*]() ## Author At Futurism, my work has often centered on bringing a sense of clarity and insight to complex topics ranging from the regulation of emerging technologies to the esoteric ideologies of Silicon Valley executives, while striving not to lose the poetic sense of awe inspired by often-obscure fields like astrophysics and quantum computing. I broke the story of CNET using AI to produce articles that turned out to be riddled with factual errors and plagiarism — a dam-breaking inflection point, as I've reported, that's inspired copycats and endless discourse while beguiling stakeholders ranging from tech giants to purveyors of spam around the web. My work at Futurism has been cited by publications including CBS News, the Los Angeles Times, Vice, Gizmodo, Engadget, the Verge, and Vanity Fair. I grew up in locales ranging from India to China, and now live in the exotic suburbs of Virginia. In my free time, I'm an avid reader of weird sci-fi literature, an aficionado of East Asian cinema, and, regrettably, a relapsed gamer. Allegedly, I’m working on a debut novel, currently untitled. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()