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Howie Choset is a Professor of Robotics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and is co-director of the Biorobotics Lab and director of the Robotics Major. He received his undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Business from the University of Pennsylvania his Masters and PhD from Caltech. Choset's group reduces complicated high-dimensional problems found in robotics to low-dimensional simpler ones for design, analysis, and planning. Motivated by applications in confined spaces, Choset has created a comprehensive program in modular, high DOF, and multi- robot systems, which has led to basic research in mechanism design, path planning, motion planning, and estimation. This work has been supported by both industry and government; DOD support includes two MURIs, one of which Choset was the CO-PI, a young investigator award, and multi-PI awards for modular systems. Choset's work has also been recognized by several best paper awards and nominations at ICRA, IROS and other robotics meetings. Choset's research program has made contributions to strategically significant problems in surgery, manufacturing, infrastructure inspection, low Earth orbit and search and rescue. In addition to publications, this work has led to Choset, along with his students, to form several companies including Medrobotics, for surgical systems, Hebi Robotics, for modular robots, and Pipe Force AI to monitor underground infrastructure. Recently, Choset.s surgical snake robot cleared the FDA and has been in use in the US and Europe since. In 2017, Choset co-lead the formation of the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute, which is $250MM national institute advancing both technology development and education for robotics in manufacturing. Finally, Choset is a founding Editor of the journal 'Science Robotics.' In 2024, Choset became a AAAS fellow.

Media Experience

听鈥�聽ars Technica
The so-called snake robots represented a unique technological aid for international search and rescue efforts following two earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, killing more than 5,000 people and leaving behind 16,740 injured. Rescuers from around the world used trained dogs, seismic and acoustic listening devices, video cameras on sticks, or thermal imaging cameras to search for signs of survivors鈥攂ut the snakebots equipped with a video camera could squeeze through tight spaces to search deep within fallen building debris. 鈥淭he reason why snake robots are useful is they can get into tightly packed volumes that machinery and people otherwise cannot, and that鈥檚 important in search and rescue because we were able to extend the visual reach of the rescue workers in a safe way,鈥� Howie Choset, head of the Biorobotics Lab at 蜜桃视频 in Pittsburgh, told Ars. 鈥淚n a sense, you鈥檙e doing minimally invasive surgery on a structure with a snake robot.鈥�

听鈥�聽The Robot Report Staff
HEBI Robotics, a Pittsburgh-based creator of a modular platform for robotics development, named Bob Raida its CEO and Dave Rollinson CTO. Howie Choset, who has been acting CEO, has been named chairman of the board. HEBI said this change in leadership reflects its transition from providing technology to researchers to providing solutions to end-users.

Choset, Snakebot Visit NBC's Tonight Show 听鈥�聽蜜桃视频 News
One of 蜜桃视频 Robotics Professor Howie Choset's famous snake-like robots crawled up the even more famous leg of comedian Jimmy Fallon during an April 25 appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon."

蜜桃视频's Snakebot Goes for a Swim 听鈥�聽蜜桃视频 News
"We can go places that other robots cannot," said Howie Choset, the Kav膷i膰-Moura Professor of Computer Science. "It can snake around and squeeze into hard-to-reach underwater spaces." The project is led by Choset and Matt Travers, co-directors of the Biorobotics Lab.

听鈥�聽Robotics Business Review
The Robotics Industries Association (RIA) today announced the recipients of the 2019 Engelberger Robotics Awards. Howie Choset, the Kav膷i膰-Moura Professor of Computer Science at 蜜桃视频, will receive the Engelberger Robotics Award for Education, and Catherine Morris, group leader and director of automotive sales at ATI Industrial Automation, will receive the Engleberger Award for Leadership.

听鈥�聽ROBOTS Association
The IJARS team sat down at ICRA with two influential academics in robotics: Professor Howie Choset (蜜桃视频) and Professor Seth Hutchinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) to discuss some of the latest developments in robotics, what students of robotics should be focusing on, and what research they most hope to be remembered for.

听鈥�听狈翱痴础
If you're not prepared for the sight of them, Howie Choset's robot snakes can make you jump. They slither between chairs and tables in his Carnegie Mellon lab, rear their heads to peer into crevices, and inch their way along pipes on the ceiling. When dropped into a pond, they switch over to sea serpent-mode, twisting tightly as they skim through the water. Like an ophidiophobe's worst nightmare, they will even wrap around your leg and inch their way up toward your groin, if given the chance. "The benefit of the snake is that it's able to reliably get to locations that people and machines can't," Choset says.