Fresh from Korean robotics: the EveR-1 humanoid robot, which sort of looks like a real person, but is just unrealistic enough to look kind of terrifying. The creepy machine is built to look like a young woman in her early 20s and is capable of moving its upper body and expressing the emotions of happiness, anger, sadness and pleasure. Fortunately, it can't use its lower body at all, making the hunting and murder of humans very difficult. Baeg Moon-hong, a scientist at the Korean Institute for Industrial Technology who helped create EveR-1, says "the robot can serve to provide information in department stores and museums or read stories to children; it's capable of both education and entertainment functions." The robot has 15 monitors that it uses to interpret facial expressions and make eye contact with the customers it's helping or the children it's traumatizing for life. If the EveR-1 seems a little too basic for your use, don't worry — they're already hard at work on the EveR-2, which will be able to stand and sit, and it will have more realistic emotions and facial features. We're not sure if that makes it more or less creepy. — Adam Frucci

EveR-1 is the new face of Korean robotics, via Engadget