# PARO Robots: company

Canonical ID: `dd74c39d-7a47-4efe-abb5-a9a9f0ed9c18`

## Key facts

- **Focus:** Therapeutic-robot maker
- **Robot:** Interactive robotic baby harp seal
- **Developer:** Developed by Japan's AIST, led by Takanori Shibata
- **Recognition:** Certified by Guinness World Records as the world's most therapeutic robot
- **Customers:** Widely used in dementia and elder care
- **Technology:** Equipped with five sensor systems: touch, light, hearing, temperature, and posture

- **Slug:** paro
- **Status:** active
- **HQ:** Japan

## Models

- [PARO](/models/paro-seal.md) (companion_robot) (id: `435c4e9e-f7d9-4837-8b33-fda7fc1e0595`)

## Current leadership (1)

- [Takanori Shibata](/people/takanori-shibata.md) Inventor (secondary-verified)

## Founders (1)

- [Takanori Shibata](/people/takanori-shibata.md) (sole)

## Supplies to

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## Sources (1)

1. https://www.parorobots.com/

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