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World Record Domino Robot (100k dominoes in 24hrs)

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    This is Dom.
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    He's a friendly little robot
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    that's super good at only one thing.
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    Setting up a butt-ton of dominos
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    really really fast.
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    It's taken five years to get to this point
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    but according to our initial tests,
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    we have hopes that he might be more than
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    ten times faster than the fastest human.
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    So today we're gonna put him to the test
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    going head to head against he world's
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    foremost domino expert,
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    who unfortunately is a mere human.
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    Then we're gonna attempt a
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    Guinness world record and he's gonna try
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    and fill this entire warehouse
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    with a mural
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    of a hundred thousand dominos.
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    And for context, setting up a domino mural
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    that size would take a team of seven
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    skill builders one full week.
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    Dom here, is gonna attempt to do it
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    by himself in 24 hours.
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    Now I know what you're thinking,
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    "Big whoop Mark,"
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    because as a kid you might have had a toy
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    that looked like this.
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    Or even this custom robot
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    KiwiCo made me that can drop
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    twenty dominos in a row.
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    So isn't a bit overkill to utilize
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    an autonomous robot,
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    a half mile of Hot Wheels track,
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    and a high speed robotic arm?
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    And I get it because our designs
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    look like this where we were just trying
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    to hack a Roomba when we first tried to
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    tackle this problem
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    exactly five years ago.
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    But then pesky details with scale arise
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    like for starters, just how much
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    100,000 dominos is.
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    So the robot will need to come and reload
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    at least 1,000 times.
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    But how exactly do you reload it?
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    And how would it know exactly where
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    to drop each domino and what color
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    it should be?
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    And how do you make it so reliable,
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    that it doesn't screw up once
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    in a 100,000 drops of a domino?
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    A system to reliably tackle issues
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    at scales like this is just going to be
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    inherently complex.
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    Like ten times more complex
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    than my automatic bullseye dartboard,
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    which to this point was probably the most
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    complicated build on my channel.
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    So after failing off and on
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    for three years,
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    I was doing a Q and A at Makerfaire
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    and I told the crowd if anyone wanted
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    to help me with the brutal challenge
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    to hit me up afterwards.
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    And to my absolute delight,
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    two freshmen from Stanford
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    and a software engineer from
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    The Bay Area,
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    all took me up on the challenge.
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    So I hired them and two years later,
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    here we were.
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    Now before I show you how it all works,
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    I just wanted to put him in a head to head
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    competition to see how good he really was.
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    And for that we need the undisputed
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    heavyweight champion on YouTube
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    for all things dominos,
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    Lily Hevesh.
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    Lily, you are known on Youtube as
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    The Queen of Dominos right?
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    People do call me The Domino Queen.
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    And for very good reason,
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    with over 1.2 billion views on
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    her channel,
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    you've almost certainly seen
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    one of her incredible creations
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    over her 12 years on the platform.
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    She's so good,
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    she's even got her own line of dominos
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    you can buy in stores.
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    Ok, so here's the challenge Lily.
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    I want you to set up like 300 dominos
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    right now and let's see how long it takes
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    a human to do that.
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    Ok.
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    Clock starts,
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    Now.
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    I got to do two hands.
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    If you need me, Lily,
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    just sitting here reading my newspaper.
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    For you kids at home a newspaper is like
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    a boring ipad made from trees.
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    That's actually pretty fast.
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    Oh no.
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    Disaster, the foibles of being human.
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    Ok Lily are ready for this?
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    No.
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    I've seen enough.
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    (Failure to whistle)
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    I actually don't know how to whistle.
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    This, is the Dominator.
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    Oh my god
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    Wow
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    I lve the eyes.
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    A good set of googly eyes will go
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    a long ways.
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    Ok boy, let em down.
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    I suck at dominos, Lily,
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    but i'm good at engineering which means
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    I'm actually really good at dominos.
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    We even showed off
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    the Dominator doubled-stacked
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    the middle row for you.
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    That is impressive,
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    that is seriously impressive.
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World Record Domino Robot (100k dominoes in 24hrs)
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