Robots Aren't Human. You Only Make Them So

If a robot were to look at you with a twinkle in its eye, you wouldn't be blamed for running away in terror. But that plunge into the uncanny valley doesn't bother Max Aguilera-Hellweg, who's been photographing anthropomorphic bots since 2010. "I've never found myself afraid of any of them," he says. In fact, he'd love for his subjects to appear more lifelike. A student of anatomy--Aguilera- Hellweg graduated from med school at 48--he looks for "the right angle to find that bit of humanness."