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About Howie Choset
- Howie Choset is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.
- His research includes snakebots, or robots designed in a segmented fashion to mimic snake-like actuation and motion, demining, and coverage.
- His snake robots have also been used in surgical applications for diagnosis and tumor removal; nuclear power plant inspection, archaeological excavations, manufacturing applications and understanding biological behaviors of a variety of animals.
- In 2002, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
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