A pack of robot dogs donning creepy lifelike heads of the most powerful influencers — ranging from the world’s richest man Elon Musk to renowned pop artist Andy Warhol — moved into a German museum in the latest stop for the odd traveling exhibit.
The cyborg canines are all fitted with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Pablo Picasso, and other modern industry elites.
They were previously roaming around Miami and San Francisco, but are now stationed at the New National Gallery in Berlin.
From a functionality standpoint, the dogs do very little besides wander aimlessly around their pen — and defecate printed images of their surroundings in a style associated with whichever celebrity it resembles.
The Warhol mutt, for instance, would pass an image in the late artist’s pop art style as rendered by the robot’s AI.
The interactive “Regular Animals” exhibit was created by American artist Beeple, formally known as Mike Winkelmann.
Beeple said that his project is intended to reflect how tech billionaires and their platforms or algorithms have warped the laymen’s perspective.
“In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world,” Beeple said. “How Picasso paintings changed how we saw the world, how Warhol talked about consumerism, pop culture, that changed how he saw things.”
The view of the world today is now shaped by tech billionaires, who possess algorithms that dictate what society sees, Beeple said.
“That’s an immense amount of power that I don’t think we’ve fully understood, especially because when they want to make a change, they don’t need to lobby the U.N.,” he added.
“They don’t need to get something through Congress or the EU, they just wake up and change these algorithms.”
Beeple included a model of his own head on some of the dogs — seeming to recognize his own influence as the third most expensive living artist to sell at auction.
When he debut the exhibit at the Art Basel 2025 event in Miami, he gave away photos excreted by the robots to eager audience members with a certificate that read, “100% organic GMO-free dog sh-t.”
The robots are set to expire — theoretically “die” — in three years, at which point its existence will be “preserved forever on-chain,” according to Beeple.
