Former NASA engineer Mark Rober, who has a huge following among children, is headed to Netflix to share his experiments and host a competition show in 2026.

Netflix announced the plans on Monday, Aug. 18. Rober is the leader of CrunchLabs , a team of engineers and creators based in Northern California. He has over 70 million subscribers on YouTube and over 11 million followers on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook combined.

His past experiments include one that tested the limits and reaction times of self-driving cars and another in which he built a roller coaster in his lab. His high-energy videos include nods to characters popular among kids, such as Phineas from Disney's "Phineas and Ferb."

In one video he shared in June, he reached out to Phineas to ask for help throwing a birt

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