Howie Choset is an Associate Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University where he conducts research in path planning, motion planning, estimation, mechanism design, and hybrid controls. Much of this work has two foci: snake robots for search and rescue, manufacturing and medical robotics, and coverage for de-mining and autobody painting. Choset directs the Undergraduate Robotics Minor at Carnegie Mellon and teaches an overview course on Robotics which uses series of custom developed Lego Labs to complement the course work. Professor Choset's students have won best paper awards at the RIA in 1999 and ICRA in 2003, he has been nominated for best papers at ICRA in 1997 and IROS in 2003 and 2007, and won best paper at IEEE Bio Rob in 2006. In 2002 the MIT Technology Review elected Choset as one of its top 100 innovators in the world under 35. In 2005, MIT Press published a textbook, lead authored by Choset, entitled "Principles of Robot Motion."