In a feat of engineering and video content creation, YouTuber Mark Rober recently unveiled a record-breaking robot capable of stacking 100,000 dominoes in 24 hours — a pace that would take seven skilled builders about a week.
For good measure, the aforementioned dominoes form a massive Super Mario Bros. mural.
Rober even upped the ante by pitting his bot, aptly dubbed “The Dominator” against one of YouTube’s foremost domino builders, Lily Hevesh, who was (spoiler alert) unsurprisingly no match for a machine built specifically for this one task.
It’s hard to describe in words just how impressive Dominator is, but for context, it’s worth noting that it took Rober, and eventually a team of three student engineers, two of which attend Stanford University, a full five years to devise the bot and system capable of flawlessly executing the build.