ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,913, issued on June 3, was assigned to SHIMIZU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Construction robot" was invented by Taku Tani (Tokyo) and Syunsuke Igarashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A construction robot for mounting a member with a changeable height on a body at a predetermined height includes: a manipulator; an end effector provided at a distal end of the manipulator; a recognizing unit configured to recognize positions of the member and the body; and a measuring unit configured to measure a positional relation between the member and the body. The end effector includes a holding unit configured to hold the member in a releasable manner, a...