If you thought that a China-made robot-dog made enough headlines during the India AI Impact Summit a few months back, think again. Robo-dogs are back, and they're roaming freely inside a Berlin art gallery — that too masked as famous tech billionaires and other personalities.
At Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie, American digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, is presenting his unique installation “Regular Animals.” The work features a pack of robotic dogs equipped with hyper-realistic silicone heads modelled after tech billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg, renowned artists like Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Beeple himself, not to mention North Korean leader Kim Jong-un too.
These “dogs” roam freely within the gallery space, blending humour and satire, which can also be seen in a video courtesy of the Associated Press. Each robot uses onboard cameras to observe its surroundings and processes the visuals through artificial intelligence.
What follows is a tad peculiar: These dogs “excrete” printed images from their rear ends in a humourous imitation of digestion, which can be picked up by gallery visitors without any charge.
The resulting images reinterpret the captured scene in a style reflecting the “personality” of the figure — such as cubist forms from the Picasso dog or pop-art aesthetics from the Warhol version.
“Regular Animals” explores how technological infrastructures are increasingly shaping authorship and cultural values. Beeple also notes that modern perception is being created by algorithms and technology platforms. “Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk own algorithms that control what we see and decide how we see the world. When they want to make a change, they don't have to lobby the UN, they don't have to go to congress, they just make a change,” he says.
Originally debuted at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2025, the exhibition is now on view as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin. Curators see the show as an opportunity for society to reflect on AI's growing impact on daily life.
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