Which servos to use when breaking domino-setting record?

Author: EIS Release Date: Aug 25, 2021

YouTuber Mark Rober recently broke a world record for setting up dominos, using a custom built and programmed autonomous robot called Dominator to place 102,000 of them in just over 24 hours.

 

Mark Rober world record domino robot

On completion, the resulting Super Mario mural took only a handful of seconds to collapse once the first row was knocked over.

 

Automatically loaded by another one-off machine, Dominator positioned 300 dominos at a time with an accuracy of ~2mm, both steered and driven through omnidirectional wheels powered by ClearPath servos from Teknic of New York, which bought the record attempt to Electronics Weekly’s attention – while sadly not revealing which model was used.

 

 

Teknic’s ClearPath servos can be found here

 

 

 

Rober’s record attempt can be seen in a video here which includes descriptions of the robot and the long development programme behind it – including mention of 14,000 lines of code written.

 

He is a prolific engineer and entertainer who has undertaken various, always elaborate, projects for his eponymous youTube channel. For fun: don’t miss the hardly-electronic Squirrel maze 2.0.