Human-system collaboration with robots and AI challenges traditional notions of collaboration, raising the question of whether it can still be considered “true” collaboration when one partner is an artificial agent with limited autonomy, contextual understanding, and initiative. This chapter explores how collaboration with artificial agents can be framed as a social process, drawing on anthropomorphism and classical social psychology models. We examine the conditions under which such interactions enhance creativity, highlighting the roles of robot appearance, behavior, perceived autonomy, and human expectations of technical and social competence. Ultimately, creativity emerges as a “territory of interaction,” where relational, cognitive, emotional, and sociotechnical dimensions converge. Embracing this complexity allows humans and AI to co-create in ways that transform imagination, conception, and collaborative practice.