This project is about exploring the idea of empathy through our relationship with a robot, and explore emotions. Emotion is subjective experience, associated with mood, temperament, personality. Emotions such as affection, anger, anxiety, desire, despair, disgust, grief, fear, joy, jealousy, rage, sadness, surprise, between others are what makes the interaction between living creatures a relationship that feels alive.

The functionalist approach to emotions holds that emotions have evolved for a particular function, such as to keep the subject safe. Empathy will be explored through selected emotions and reactions, proper to living creatures: Curiosity and Fear.

Curiosity is related to natural inquisitive behavior such as exploration, investigation, and learning. It pushes you to get knowledge of your environment but also relates to a playful experience. Fear is an emotional response to a perceived threat. It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus, such as pain or the threat of danger. It relates to a surviving experience. Playful VS Survival.

This project will be composed by at least 2 creatures able to get close to a person and show curiosity to its surrounding and react with fear if the environment becomes a threat. The 2 creatures will communicate with each other as a mother and child. Mother protects the child. Child hides with his mother. Ideally there will be 3 children with some differences of personality between each other.  Children will be attached to its mother with some artificial umbilical cord.