Moro Seiya, a doctoral student in our lab, received an award in the Idea Division of the 2025 Care Tech Innovation Contest, organized by the Yoshiko Shinohara Memorial Foundation. His proposal is titled "A Parenting Support Robot for Home-Based ABA Intervention for Children with Severe Intellectual Disabilities." The award ceremony was held on March 22, 2026.
The contest takes a broad view of "care" — encompassing not only nursing care but also support for people with disabilities, learning support, and support for young carers — and invites proposals that address social challenges through technology. Moro's proposal aims to use a robot to support home-based intervention grounded in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) for children with severe intellectual disabilities.