Sophia, created by the company Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong, hooks on the digital trend with NFT, "non fungible token".

It can be described as a certificate of authenticity in the cyber world, and is included when the work "Sophia Instantiation" goes under the hammer later this week.

We are heading into a new paradigm, where robots and humans work together in a creative process, she says in a monotonous voice in a video on Twitter.

NFT is based on blockchains, a technology that will make cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, and digital art, impossible to counterfeit.

It is a hot trend to say the least right now.

An NFT with the digital work "Everydays: The first 5,000 days", by the artist Beeple, was sold this week for a record sum of 69 million US dollars (585 million kronor) at the auction company Christie's.

Sophia was first shown in 2016, and is designed with features by the ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti, the movie star Audrey Hepburn and Amanda Hanson, wife of the responsible researcher David Hanson.

With the help of AI (artificial intelligence), the robot can, among other things, make simple calls.

In 2017, Sophia was praised by the UN's development agency UNDP.

When she visited a trade fair in Riyadh the same year, Saudi Arabia announced that she had been granted citizenship in the country.

The regime declared that it was the first time a robot had become a citizen of any country - while critics called the plot a diversionary maneuver to cover up the dictatorship's abuses.