Motion & Emotion: A robot that reads and mirrors your emotions

Project conducted for the Master Industrial Design at TU Eindhoven

Duration: 3 months

Designer: Hanna Loschacoff

Contribution: Conceptualization, Interaction Design, Ideation of form and experience/expressivity, Mechanical prototyping, Material explorations using digital fabrication and narrative building connected to academic research in HCI, Exploratory Sketching, Electronics, Integration of Foundational Model (Computer Vision), Software & Hardware development

Exhibited at: Maker Days (2025)

This project explores how machines can sense and respond to human emotions through facial expressions. Using a camera and machine learning, the interface detects subtle changes in emotion and mirrors them through movement.

By making emotional interaction with technology more intuitive and physical, the project opens up new ways for people to connect with machines, not just through touch, but through shared emotional cues. It’s a step toward more emotionally intelligent and responsive materials.

Final design

Interaction Loop and Expressivity

Motion responses per emotions

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