Rober later removed two of the five incidents caught on tape after discovering that two of the thieves were actually friends of a person he hired to help catch the package thieves. The video went viral, receiving 25 million views in one day. In December 2018, Rober posted a video showing how he tricked parcel thieves with an engineered contraption that sprayed glitter on the thieves, emitted a foul odor, and captured video of the thieves. Demonstration of Mark Rober's glitter bomb He sold the company to UK-based costume company Morphsuits in 2013. The costumes were widely featured on news channels such as CBS News, CNN, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Fox, Yahoo! News, Discovery Channel, The Today Show and GMA. The company took in $250,000 in revenue in its first three weeks of operations, and by 2013 his app-integrated costumes were sold in retail stores such as Party City.

The following year, Rober launched Digital Dudz, an online Halloween costume company that specializes in Halloween costumes based on the same concept as the video (to which Rober holds the patent). His video of the 'gaping hole in torso' costume went viral, receiving 1.5 million views in one day. It shows a Halloween costume that used two iPads to create the illusion of seeing through his body. In October 2011, Rober recorded his first YouTube video. He also advocates for science in many of his videos. His videos cover a wide variety of topics, sparking ideas for April Fools' Day pranks and teaching about beating an escape room and filming primates in zoos non-invasively. While at NASA, Rober began making viral videos. He published a case study about applying wiki technology in a high-tech organization to develop an 'Intrapedia' for the capture of corporate knowledge. While at NASA, Rober was one of the primary architects for 'JPL Wired', which was a comprehensive knowledge capture wiki. He designed and delivered hardware on several JPL missions, including AMT, GRAIL, SMAP, and Mars Science Laboratory. He worked there for nine years, seven of which were spent working on the Curiosity rover, which is now on Mars.

Rober joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 2004. Rober earned a mechanical engineering degree from Brigham Young University as well as a master's degree from the University of Southern California. He became interested in engineering at a young age, making a pair of goggles that helped avoid tears while cutting onions. He graduated from Brea Olinda High School in 1998. Rober was raised in Brea, California, the youngest of three siblings. as a product designer in their Special Projects Group, where he authored patents involving virtual reality in self-driving cars. He later worked for four years at Apple Inc. 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 is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets. Mark Rober (born Ma ) is an American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator.

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