Rome Design Awards Silver

2026

Anphros

Entrant Company

Shanghaitech University

Category

Student Design - Interactive Design

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

Aphros is an embodied human–AI romance experiment where love begins as chemistry, not conversation. Instead of faces, voices, or “safe” touch, it centers on sensation and biochemical readability—treating saliva and fluid exchange as an intimate interface. It proposes a provocative idea: love is a two-way molecular dialogue, and a truly romantic machine should be able to initiate it, sense it, learn from it, and respond in kind.

Credits

Yian Ren
Haiqi Gong
Xiaobo Huang
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