A care robot used to transfer a care receiver to/from a drive assistance apparatus such as an electric wheelchair which reduces the complexity of operation of the drive assistance apparatus and the care robot, and reduces the labor of a caregiver. The care robot is provided with a holding section that assists a care receiver in standing up and sitting down by supporting a body part of the care receiver, and a control section that, when a care receiver transfers to/from a drive assistance apparatus that performs at least one of raising/lowering and traveling by using a drive source with the care receiver in at least a sitting state, at least receives (steps S204, 206) control information from the drive assistance apparatus, and performs control (steps S208, 212) to assist the transfer of the care receiver based on the control information.
