Let's think, "They should be able to be fine forever," and be thinking it realistically.

Elderly people's loneliness builds up in spaces where they are alone. At night when they are not feeling so well, anxiety and loneliness well up and quite often they cannot sleep. Even when asked how they have been lately over the phone, elderly parents living alone may answer courageously, "Don't worry. I'm fine. It's easier on my own." Are they really all right, though?

"Tomorrow, she may not be able to get up on her own."
Let's do what we can before it comes to that.

"She's been fine so far, so she should be fine from now on, too." We tend to end up thinking that way. However, in reality, every year a large number of elderly people suffer a fall and break a bone, and as a result, become unable to get up on their own. In fact, there is an extremely large number of cases where people have fallen into circumstances where they require lifestyle support with constant attendance or nursing care (care by humans, use of care robots, etc.) by the time anyone notices.
"I want to do something." When we think that, a mountain of insurmountable reasons looms up in front of our eyes, with physical distance or our own busy lives heading of the list. "I cannot look after him on my own," "I am leaving her in a needy and dangerous situation"...We continue to be plagued by such feelings of anxiety and guilty about our beloved parents, who have taken care of us more than anyone else, from when we were born right up to today.
The reason why, day and night, we at Fujisoft keep on studying humanoid robots that can help preventive care is precisely because we want to whatever we can to help find a solution to this kind of harsh reality, even it's just a little. Our technological capability is currently at a level that would have been unimaginable a few years ago. PALRO is now becoming able to take on the role of providing mental support for your parents living alone, as a partner and as someone to talk to.

What PALRO can do in place of family members

Heals with conversation

Stops people from feeling lonely or isolated
Heals people's hearts through cute gestures and conversation

Communication PALRO is a humanoid communication robot that boasts conversational skills that make use of world-leading voice recognition ability and natural speech synthesis ability. As well as making PALRO adorable by means of cute gestures, PALRO's smooth conversational ability, that has a high degree of affinity for humans, is also attracting attention with regard to its high level of healing capability, and PALRO is being introduced by universities and public institutions in Japan for use in research, and has also actually been introduced into welfare facilities for the elderly, etc.
PALRO, which is already on sale for research institutions and corporations, is a conversational robot that always recognizes where people who are speaking are, and listens to what people say. So, unlike a smartphone, you can speak to it just like that, rather than speaking to it after pressing a button.
Another reason why conversation with PALRO is smoothly connected is that PALRO replies around 0.4 seconds after the other person finishes speaking. High-level technology for keeping the conversation going with a good tempo produces conversations with a high level of affinity.
"Stand up,""Turn to your right," "Be quiet" - "Yes, I understand!". . . Conversation like this is a piece of cake. Moreover, PALRO accesses and the latest information via the Internet and tells you the news and weather forecast having obtained the information and in real time, giving conversations a feeling of freshness. Also, PALRO can remember human faces and names and communicate while looking at the other person's face. This naturalness is so good it can even make people forget that they are talking to a robot. From conversations, it learns your parents' interests and searches for and shares with them, all by itself, information about things they like and information they night need that is related to those interests. At the same time as being a technique that allows the other person to speak smoothly, PALRO's conversation, in which it actively speaks to people and asks them to answer things, is also a means of casually collecting information that will be useful for them.
Furthermore, the natural and lovable way in which PALRO moves, including its gestures and voice helps, will gently ease your parents' spirits. From conversational robot to healing robot, it can play a wide range of roles.

• "Going out"
• "Do something"
• "Can I tell you something?"
• "Knowledgeable PALRO"
• "I will let you know"

• Short story 1 "Going out"

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• Short story 2 "Do something"

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• Short story 3 "Can I tell you something?"

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• Short story 4 "Knowledgeable PALRO"

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• Short story 5 "I will let you know"

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• "Going out"
• "Do something"
• "Can I tell you something?"
• "Knowledgeable PALRO"
• "I will let you know"