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.