Value Projection. Humans perception of a humanoid robot in moral contexts.

As robots become collaborators in various domains, understanding human perception of them as moral and intentional agents ispivotal. This study addresses different strategies to promote humans’ perception of social robots as value-aware collaborators,focusing on the alignment of values between humans and the humanoid robot iCub. Employing three different strategiesof describing the iCub robot abilities of moral-decision making, we found that regardless of the strategy used, participantstended to attribute moral agency to iCub, likely influenced by its humanoid appearance. Interestingly, the absence of priorindication of iCub’s ability to make moral decisions led to a lower adoption of intentional stance. These results suggest anuanced relationship between perceived intentionality and morality in human-robot interactions. Moreover, our findings advanceour understanding of how humans perceive different agents in terms of value-awareness, bridging subjective and objectivemeasures through behavioural and self-report indicators.