Robot dogs with Musk and Zuckerberg heads roam Berlin gallery in Beeple's new exhibit

ABC NewsLiveVideoShowsShopInterest Successfully AddedWe'll notify you here with news aboutTurn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOnStream onRobot dogs with Musk and Zuckerberg heads roam Berlin gallery in Beeple's new exhibitRobot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after famous figures like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are roaming a Berlin galleryByFANNY BRODERSEN Associated Press and CLAUDIA CIOBANU Associated PressApril 28, 2026, 7:19 AM1:19Artist Beeple, Mike Winkelmann, poses inside his installation titled Regular Animals, with robots in the likeness of Kim Jong Un, left, Elon Musk, second left, Kim Jong Un, Jeff Bezos, center, and Mark Zuckerberg, right, at the Neue Nationalgalerie museum in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)The Associated PressBERLIN -- Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after world-renowned figures — including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso — can be seen roaming around a Berlin gallery, occasionally “pooing” printed images of their surroundings which they've previously captured with integrated cameras. The animals are part of an interactive installation by American artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) currently showing at Berlin's New National Gallery. Each printed image shows a snippet of reality transformed by AI to resemble the personality of the dog or, in other words, the worldview of the human figure on its shoulders (i.e., the Picasso dog will produce images in Cubist style and Warhol's in pop art). It's a commentary on how our perceptions are shaped by algorithms and technology platforms, the organizers of the exhibition write in the description of the event. “In the past, our view of the world was shaped in part by how artists saw the world,” Beeple told the AP. “How Picasso painted changed how we saw the world, how Warhol talked about consumerism, pop culture, that changed how he saw those things.”Now our view of the world is shaped by tech billionaires who own powerful algorithms that decide what we see and what we don’t see, the artist added. “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. They don’t need to get something through Congress or the EU, they just wake up and change these algorithms.”The dogs also wear heads in Beeple’s own image. Lisa Botti, the curator of the exhibition in Berlin, said that artificial intelligence was one of the phenomena most impacting our lives today and that “museums are the places where society can reflect” on such transformations, which is why she wanted to have Beeple’s work shown. The work, entitled “Regular Animals,” was first first shown at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025. Beeple is a graphic designer from South Carolina who does a variety of digital artwork. He is one of the founders of the “everyday” movement in 3D graphics: For years, he has been creating a picture every day and posting it online without missing a single day. Popular ReadsUS being 'humiliated' by Iran, German chancellor saysApr 28, 3:05 AM'Absolute chaos': Gunman charges WH correspondents' dinner checkpointApr 26, 12:52 AMTrump says US Navy attacked and seized Iranian-flagged cargo shipApr 19, 10:21 PMAccording to Christie's, he is the third most expensive living artist to sell at auction, after David Hockney and Jeff Koons. In the spring of 2021,…

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