Innovator Profile
Caleb Rucker
Associate Professor and B. Ray Thompson Professor, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Director, REACH Lab
Dr. Rucker received his PhD from Vanderbilt University in 2011. His research interests include understanding robotic manipulators that have a continuously flexible structure, sensing the mechanical interaction between robots and soft tissue, and exploring novel manipulator structures and actuation methods.
Available Technologies
-
Improved Flexural Rigidity in Concentric-Tube Robots
Researchers at the University of Tennessee and Louisiana State University have invented a concentric-tube steerable device which has the improved stru ... (read more)

Contact Information
UTRF Multi-Campus Office
UT Tower, Suite 961A
Physical Address:
400 W. Summit Hill Drive
Knoxville, TN 37902
Postal Address:
505 Summer Place
Knoxville, TN 37902