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In short
On YouTube, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has 991,000 subscribers and 119,081,361 views in all, as of November 15, 2026. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "How a soft robot inches through hard-to-reach places", with 14,223 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 2,717 of the 6,390 channels on Trari, and No. 63 of 122 in category "Explainers, history and education".
YouTube: The numbers today
subscribers
991,000
total views
119,081,361
Videos on the channel
994
1 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
6 days ago
November 9, 2026
Views per subscriber
120
a new long video usually gets 29,889 views
a new short video usually gets 19,905 views
a new short video usually gets 19,905 views
Next milestone
1,000,000 subscribers
9,000 subscribers to go
Similar channels
YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Explainers, history and education | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 2,717 of 6,390 | 63 of 122 |
Subscribers in the category Explainers, history and education
Views gained this week in the category Explainers, history and education
YouTube: The channel's latest videos
The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views | Per day | First day | Likes | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 What Is That Thing? | This Tool Packs A Punch! | November 9, 2026 | 1:28 short | 4,961 | - | - | 152 | 5 |
 How a soft robot inches through hard-to-reach places | October 28, 2026 | 2:04 short | 14,223 | - | - | 226 | 16 |
 Are we actually using quantum computers today? | October 28, 2026 | 1:19 short | 6,789 | - | - | 172 | 9 |
 Curiosity Unbounded, Episode 19 (VIDEO): Quantum Computing:… | October 28, 2026 | 33:59 | 9,429 | - | - | 137 | 12 |
 From Japan to the Moon (and back) | October 9, 2026 | 3:56 | 29,889 | - | - | 607 | 25 |
 This robot can avoid unknown moving obstacles | October 7, 2026 | 1:54 short | 14,617 | - | - | 682 | 16 |
 Helping robots avoid the unexpected | October 7, 2026 | 3:22 | 41,656 | - | - | 606 | 38 |
 Introducing MIT for America | October 6, 2026 | 1:33 short | 72,489 | - | - | 1,543 | 135 |
 (ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢ: ғʟᴀsʜɪɴɢ ʟɪɢʜᴛs) How to make robots powered by sk… | September 29, 2026 | 1:19 short | 30,158 | - | - | 1,273 | 32 |
 Potential Nobel Winner | September 24, 2026 | - | 0 | - | - | 29 | 0 |
 This robotic lab builds experiments on demand | September 17, 2026 | 0:30 short | 5,702 | - | - | 69 | 7 |
 This is MIT | September 3, 2026 | 0:55 short | 139,944 | - | - | 7,156 | 112 |
 This is MIT | September 1, 2026 | 0:55 short | 193,571 | - | - | 3,209 | 353 |
 Learn to operate an excavator faster | August 24, 2026 | 2:39 short | 10,256 | - | - | 351 | 11 |
 Digging in, faster | August 20, 2026 | 2:45 short | 25,194 | - | - | 599 | 49 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 28.0 in the category: 20.8
- comments per 1,000 views
- 1.4 in the category: 1.3
- short vs long
- 11 short (up to 3 minutes), 3 long
average views per short video: 47,082
average views per long video: 26,991
YouTube: Most watched videos (not Shorts)
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 MIT cheetah robot lands the running jump | May 28, 2015 | 1:48 | 21,747,545 |
 Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion fram… | December 12, 2011 | 2:47 | 11,965,581 |
 Small cubes that self-assemble | October 3, 2013 | 4:12 | 5,342,398 |
 Vision-free MIT Cheetah | July 5, 2018 | 2:49 | 3,823,865 |
 Mark Rober Address to MIT Class of 2023 | June 1, 2023 | 19:24 | 3,625,697 |
YouTube: Most watched Shorts
| Video | Uploaded | Length | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
 Mark Rober makes his cap fly | June 1, 2023 | 1:00 | 3,158,649 |
 This is MIT | March 4, 2024 | 1:00 | 693,433 |
 Graduates of MIT. What’s next? | May 30, 2025 | 0:51 | 404,261 |
 Experiment (100x slower) | November 8, 2010 | 0:18 | 197,196 |
| This is MIT | September 3, 2026 | 0:55 | 140,019 |
Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
