US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on March 31 for "Robot and robot-controlling method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,486, issued on March 31, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Robot and robot-controlling method" was invented by Takeshi Shibata (Kobe, Japan), Ryota Ono (Kobe, Japan) and Junichi Matsuoka (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot includes a robot arm; a drive mechanism for driving the robot arm, the drive mechanism including a gear(s) and a shaft; a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature in the robot arm; and a controller for compensating for influences of thermal expansions of the robot arm, and at least one of the gear(s) and the shaft based on a detection result of the temperature sensor."

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