Billionaires byte back! – Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg as ROBOT DOGS at Berlin museum

Introduction to “Regular Animals”

US artist Mike Winkelmann, also known as Beeple, has debuted his “Regular Animals” installation in Germany, which features robot dogs with faces of several prominent figures, including billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg.

Surreal Figures and AI Interaction

Footage filmed on Thursday also shows robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) leader Kim Jong Un, late artists Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, as well as the installation’s creator himself.

Concept Behind the Installation

Winkelmann explained that the robot dogs are designed to occasionally ‘poop out’ printed images of their surroundings, which were captured with their integrated cameras.

Commentary on Changing Worldviews

The images are then processed by AI systems that reinterpret the data according to the cultural, artistic, or ideological ‘style’ associated with each figure.

“In the past, we saw the world through the lens of artists and people like that. The way Picasso painted changed how we saw the world. The way Warhol talked about consumerism showed how we changed the world, Winkelmann said.

“Now our worldview is shaped by tech billionaires who control powerful algorithms that decide what we see and what we don’t see. And so that’s a big sort of a shift,” the artist continued.

Regular Animals installation was first shown at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 and is now being exhibited at the Neue Nationalgalerie as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin.