Meijigakuin University
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The University of Electro-Communications
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Osaka University

At the 134th Meeting of the Japanese Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Osaka Obic Hall), Researcher Kyoko Fujino presented our latest results.
Talk: “ICT for Better Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Developmental Support.”
[External Link] Conference site

ChiCaRo appeared in the Autumn 2025 issue of someone, a science magazine for teens by Leave a Nest.
Feature: “Conveying the feeling of play through robots.”
[External Link] someone website

ChiCaRo appears in “Robots to the Rescue! Encyclopedia” (Vol.1: Robots that help at home).
[Link] Publisher

At CSBG6 (Awara, Fukui), Misato Kasuya received the Encouragement Award.
Talk: “Telepresence robot for child–elder communication.”
[Link] Award info

Won the Grand Prize at the 12th Kawaii Design Awards, Japan Society of Kansei Engineering.
Work: “ChiCaRo—Increasing the ‘Mikata’ of childcare.”
[Link] Award site

At JSME Annual Meeting (Ehime Univ.), Misato Kasuya presented ChiCaRo results from the NEDO project.
[Link] Program

At RSJ 2024 (Osaka Institute of Tech.), Kasuya talked on child‑elder interaction via ChiCaRo.
[Link] Session info

At the 52nd New Industrial Technology Promotion Symposium (Bellesalle Onarimon Eki‑mae) on August 27, Kasumi Abe presented NEDO project outcomes and our team ran a booth exhibition.
Session: “Realizing a society connected beyond distance with AI, remote, robots, and people—Research results from NEDO projects”

Talk title: “How robots and AI connect circles of support for childcare and developmental care — R&D on explainable autonomous interaction AI and its applications —”
[External Link] Program info

At the 24th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Baby Science (The University of Tokyo), UEC Researcher Sotaro Hirao presented results from the NEDO project.
ChiCaRo Inc. also exhibited ChiCaRo and body‑movement play activities.
[External Link] JSBS 2024: Baby Science & AI

We gave a talk on August 27 at Bellesalle Onarimon Eki‑mae about NEDO project outcomes.
“Realizing a society connected beyond distance with AI, remote, robots, and people—Research results from NEDO projects”

14:10–14:40 “How robots and AI connect circles of support for childcare and developmental care — R&D on explainable autonomous interaction AI and its applications —”
[External Link] Program info

At the 38th JSAI Annual Conference (Hamamatsu), UEC’s Sotaro Hirao presented a poster. The poster attracted a constant crowd and the session was a great success.

[External Link] Program info

Kasumi Abe gave an invited topic talk at the first meeting of the Child‑Centered Robotics Special Committee.
Title: “Behind the scenes of Child‑Robot Interaction research”
[External Link]
Committee activity page

At the Hiroshima International Conference Center “Himawari,” Kasumi Abe gave a keynote. In the following symposium, Abe and Kyoko Fujino engaged in active discussion with participants and panelists from Kyoto University and nursery organizations.
Theme: “Can childcare and robots/AI coexist? — Talking about the future of childcare —”

Exhibited at iREX Tokyo Big Sight (NEDO area). Many visitors joined—from researchers to families.
[Link] iREX site

Presented NEDO project results at RSJ Open Forum “AI & Robotics with Humans.”
[Link] YouTube