Calm your troubled soul by watching this robot arm solve Tower of Hanoi

Maybe it's been a rough day. Maybe you're frazzled. Maybe you love your job, and everything's going great, but something just feels off. Have you tried watching a robot arm slowly, painstakingly solve Tower of Hanoi?

In case you need a refresher on Hanoi, it's pretty simple (aka I looked on Wikipedia):

The goal is to move the whole stack to another peg.

BUT

    You can only move one disk at a time.
    You can only move the top disk of a stack.
    You can't put a disk on a smaller disk.

A robot arm has some extra challenges, like:

    It doesn't have eyes.
    It was programmed by an intern named Yosef Mirsky, as his first project at the company.
    It can't read Wikipedia.

Also, while I know it looks really simple, and perhaps this robot...

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