From Jimmy Fallon’s leg to deep beneath the sea, CMU’s snakebot can slither anywhere Howie Choset actually doesn’t like snakes all that much. However, that hasn’t stopped the CMU Robotics Institute professor from developing a series of lifelike snake robots to perform dangerous tasks — that can now operate underwater. “Me personally, I’m afraid of snakes,” says Choset. “I don’t want to touch one. I don’t want to be near one. I know when I was a grad student, an office mate had one as a pet and I had nightmares because of it.”