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World Record Domino Robot (100k dominoes in 24hrs)
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- This is Dom.
He's a friendly little robot that's super good
at only one thing, setting up a butt ton of dominoes
really, really fast.
It's taken five years to get to this point,
but according to our initial test, we have hopes
that he might be more than 10 times faster
than the fastest human.
So today we're gonna put him to the test,
going head to head
against the world's foremost domino expert,
who unfortunately is a mere human.
Then we're gonna attempt a Guinness World Record
and he's gonna try and fill this entire warehouse
with a mural of a 100,000 dominoes.
And for context, setting up a domino mural that size
would take a team of seven skill builders one full week.
Dom here is gonna attempt to do it by himself in 24 hours.
Now I know what you're thinking,
"Big whoop, Mark," because as a kid you might have had a toy
that looked like this
or even this custom robot KiwiCo made me
that can drop 20 dominoes in a row.
So isn't it a bit overkill to utilize an autonomous robot
a half mile of Hot wheels tracks,
and a high speed robotic arm?
And I get it because our designs look like this,
where we're just trying to hack a little Roomba
when we first tried to tackle this problem
exactly five years ago.
But then pesky details with scale arise.
Like for starters,
just how much a hundred thousand dominoes is.
So the robot will need to come
and reload at least a thousand times.
But how exactly do you reload it?
And how would it know exactly where to drop each domino
and what color it should be?
And how do you make it so reliable that it doesn't screw up
once in a hundred thousand drops of a domino?
A system to reliably tackle issues at scales like this
is just going to be inherently super complex.
Like 10 times more complex
than my automatic bullseye dart board,
which to this point was probably the most complicated build
on my channel.
So after failing off and on for three years,
I was doing a Q and A at Maker Faire,
and I told the crowd if anyone wanted to help me
with the brutal challenge to hit me up afterwards.
And to my absolute delight, two freshmen from Stanford
and a software engineer from the Bay Area
all took me up on the challenge.
So I hired them and two years later, here we were.
Now, before I show you how it all works,
I first wanted to put him in a head-to-head competition
to see how good he really was.
And for that, we need the undisputed heavyweight champion
on YouTube for all things dominoes, Lily Hevesh.
Lily, you are known on YouTube
as the Queen of Dominoes, right?
- People do call me the Domino Queen.
- And for very good reason, with over 1.2 billion views
on her channel, you've almost certainly seen one
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