Mark Rober
American YouTuber, engineer and inventor · United States · On the map · YouTubers · Born 1980 · age 46
A former NASA engineer who spent seven years on the Curiosity rover, then pivoted to building glitter-bomb traps for porch pirates and explaining physics through backyard experiments that routinely pull tens of millions of views.
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Mark Rober joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory after college and worked nine years as an engineer, seven of them on the Curiosity rover that would eventually land on Mars. He left for Apple's Special Projects Group in the early 2010s, spending four years as a product designer and filing patents on virtual reality systems for self-driving cars. Somewhere in that stretch he started a YouTube channel, and by the time he walked away from Apple the videos - elaborate gadgets, science demos, and increasingly complex revenge plots against package thieves - had found an audience that now numbers in the twenties of millions. He teaches physics by breaking it, and the classroom is a driveway.
