In robotics, a field of research still populated by prototypes, much of the research is made through videos and pictures of robots. We study how the highly human-like robot Sophia is perceived through a YouTube video. Often researchers take for granted in their experiments that people perceive humanoids as such. With this study we wanted to understand to what extent a convenience sample of university students perceive Sophia’s human-likeness; second, we investigated which mental capabilities and emotions they attribute to her; and third, we explored the possible uses of Sophia they imagine. Our findings suggest that the morphological human-likeness of Sophia, through the video, is not salient in the Sophia’s representations of these participants. Only some mental functions are attributed to Sophia and no emotions. Finally, uses of Sophia turned out to be connected to the gender stereotypes that characterize stereotyped women’s professions and occupations but not completely.

在机器人学这个仍然充满原型的研究领域中，大部分研究都是通过机器人的视频和图片进行的。我们研究如何通过 YouTube 视频感知高度像人类的机器人 Sophia。通常，研究人员在他们的实验中理所当然地认为人们认为类人生物是这样的。通过这项研究，我们想了解大学生的便利样本在多大程度上认为索菲亚的人性化；其次，我们调查了他们将哪些心理能力和情绪归因于她；第三，我们探索了他们想象中的 Sophia 的可能用途。我们的研究结果表明，通过视频，索菲亚在形态上的人类相似性在索菲亚对这些参与者的表现中并不突出。只有一些心理功能归因于索菲亚，没有情感。最后，