Watch a robot dropping mints into soda bottles in spectacular slow motion

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Watch a robot dropping mints into soda bottles in spectacular slow motion
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Everyone knows that dropping mints into a bottle of soda is the height of don't-try-this-at-home entertainment — but it turns out there's a way to make this popular home-brewed experiment even more fun.

All you need is a camera capable of filming in extreme slow motion and a robotic arm.

In the video above, Gav from The Slow Mo Guys combines his trusty phantom with a speedy robotic assistant in order to track mints tumbling into colourful fizzy liquid from a variety of different angles.

"It's like I've got a small drone and I'm just flying above this plume of liquid," says Gav, shortly after a shot of the robot-held camera tracking directly above an erupting pink fizz plume.

It might not sound like much, but the footage is sort of hypnotic.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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