This robot likes to be touched

Is it a microphone on a stick?  Is it a spooky, dismembered last-generation iMac looking for its head?  Is it a cybernetic pussywillow?  We're not sure, but this robot thing responds to sensory input like tickling, and even gets startled (see the video here).  The nervous code was created by Andre Stubbe and Markus at the Berlin University of the Arts as part of a "Lustobjekt" project in a Digital Media Class.  Leave it up to those crazy German kids to turn c's into k's and make it sound oh, so cyber.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:10AM]

Lustobjekt is a german word. Nothing cyber about it...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:10AM]

That's.... that's vaguely erotic.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:10AM]

actually, objekt is the german word for object, but you knew that, didn't you?
and it indeed is vaguely erotic...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:10AM]

Ha, seriously. The erotic touching, the shape of the robot and the music... jesus the music...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:10AM]

well, and actually, lust is the german word for lust as well... strange world it is, er?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:10AM]

Actually, I'd like to see this technology applied to Asimo or Qrio.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 2:10AM]

If they put a light bulb on the end of it, I'll buy it.