Mark Rober

Mark Rober
Rober in 2019
Born (1980-03-11) March 11, 1980 (age 44)
Brea, California, United States
Alma mater
Occupations
Known for
Children1
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2011–present
GenreScience & Technology
Subscribers56.5 million[1][2]
Total views7.38 billion[3][2]
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers2014
1,000,000 subscribers2016
10,000,000 subscribers2019
50,000,000 subscribers2024
Last updated: September 7, 2024

Mark Rober (born March 11, 1980[4][5][6]) is an American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator. He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets. Before he became a YouTuber, Rober was an engineer with NASA for nine years, where he spent seven years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He later worked for four years at Apple Inc. as a product designer in their Special Projects Group, where he authored patents involving virtual reality in self-driving cars.

  1. ^ "About". YouTuber. Archived from the original on December 18, 2020. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "About Mark Rober". YouTube.
  3. ^ "About". SocialBlade. Archived from the original on April 25, 2022. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
  4. ^ Rober, Mark B. [@MarkRober] (November 21, 2012). "@PookieSchabs that's a problem. March 11. You will be totally unrelate-able for 3 months" (Tweet). Retrieved June 27, 2023 – via Twitter.
  5. ^ Rober, Mark B. [@MarkRober] (March 12, 2021). "This is the most accurate capture of my YT journey I've seen (usually these things just make facts up to sound well researched). Despite having a bunch of viral videos it took me 5 years to hit 100k then 1M subs. That's one way YT has changed for the better :)" (Tweet). Retrieved June 27, 2023 – via Twitter.
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