University of Tennessee Research Foundation
Technology Transfer & Licensing
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
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Improved Flexural Rigidity in Concentric-Tube RobotsResearchers at the University of Tennessee and Louisiana State University have invented a concentric-tube steerable device which has the improved structural mod ... (read more)
