Within this project, Dr. Perugia is studying how people attribute gender to humanoid robots; which roles, contexts, behaviors, and physical features guide the process of gender attribution. She is particularly interested in understanding if and how the way roboticists imbue humanoid robots with gender cues and laypeople attribute gender to them is influenced by stereotypes and biases existing in society at large, and how a robot’s genderedness might affect people’s perceptions of a robot. Within this topic, she has collaborated or is currently collaborating with researchers from University of Naples Federico II (Prof. Silvia Rossi and Dr. Alessandra Rossi), University of Siena (Dr. Stefano Guidi and Prof. Oronzo Parlangeli), Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Piercosma Bisconti Lucidi), Linköping University (Dominika Lisy), Uppsala University (Dr. Katie Winkle), Bielefeld University (Prof. Friederike Eyssel), Potsdam University (Dr. Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann), TU Wien (Dr. Katta Spiel), Utrecht University (Dr. Maartje de Graaf), Tokyo Institute of Technology (Dr. Katie Seaborn) and more.