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Howie Choset was elected a 2024 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. Choset was recognized for “distinguished contributions to the field of robotics, and for leadership in entrepreneurship and education.”

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

The Kavčić-Moura Professorship honors inventors José Moura and Aleksandar Kavčić, whose scientific research and technological innovations have had a transformative impact on the computing industry for more than a decade and a half. The chair was appointed to Howie Choset in 2018.

Kavčić-Moura Professor of Computer Science

The Robert E. Doherty Award is given annually to a member of the Carnegie Mellon University community who has made substantial and sustained contributions to excellence in education. Howie Choset received the award in 2022.

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A Curvature and Trajectory Optimization-based 3D Surface Reconstruction Pipeline for Ultrasound Trajectory Generation

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GLSO: Grammar-guided Latent Space Optimization for Sample-efficient Robot Design Automation

Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series)

A Roadmap for Us Robotics - From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition (Foundations and Trends(r) in Robotics)

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.

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Choset, Snakebot Visit NBC's Tonight Show

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Robotics Leaders Choset, Morris to Receive 2019 Engelberger Awards

Interview with IJARS, with Howie Choset and Seth Hutchinson

The Evolution of the Bioinspired Robot

Vision Sensing Device and Method

Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science in Robotics

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For this presentation in our RoboLaunch series, guest speaker Howie Choset (Professor at Carnegie Mellon University) discusses snake robots and biologically inspired systems, strategically significant problems in surgery and manufacturing, and robotic modularity, multi-agent planning, information-based search, & skill learning.
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Howie Choset "Snake Robots"

Meet Professor Choset and learn more about the Biorobotics Lab and see robots from spinoff companies Medrobotics, Hebi and Bito in this video produced to celebrate him winning the 2019 Joseph Engelberger Award for Robotics Education.

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2019 Engelberger Robotics Award for Education

Howie Choset is the Kavcic-Moura Professor of Computer Science in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he serves as the co-director of the Biorobotics Lab and as director of the Robotics Major. While working at Penn’s GRASP Lab, he earned undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Entrepreneurial Management. Thereafter, Howie received his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech in 1996.

Howie’s research 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 and has appeared in several journal papers (including one in Science and two in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sceince), 180 conference papers.

Choset's research program has contributed to strategically significant problems in diverse areas such as surgery, manufacturing, infrastructure inspection, 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 Bito Robotics for autonomous guided vehicles. Recently, Choset’s surgical snake robot cleared the FDA and has been in use in the US and Europe since.

Choset also leads multi-PI projects centered on manufacturing: (1) automating the programming of robots for auto-body painting; (2) the development of mobile manipulators for agile and flexible fixture-free manufacturing of large structures in aerospace, and (3) the creation of a data-robot ecosystem for rapid manufacturing in the commercial electronics industry. This year, 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.

Howie Choset : Biorobotics Lab, Medrobotics, Hebi &amp; Bito

Howie Choset discusses motion, snake robots, urban search and rescue, nuclear power plant inspection, minimally invasive surgical robotics and a rebirth of a new kind of efficient manufacturing.

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Faculty Spotlight: Howie Choset, Robotics Institute, CMU School of Computer Science

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