Updated Dec. 5, 2025, 5:14 p.m. ET
A new art installation is catching people’s attention in Miami for its canine composition. The installation, named “Regular Animals,” features multiple public figures and celebrities as robotic dogs, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Andy Warhol.
Videos of the installation, made by artist Beeple and currently at Art Basel Miami Beach, show the creatures walking around, lying down, sitting, and pooping out artworks. The bodies are robotic with a realistic mask of a public figure’s head placed on each dog.
People began viewing the exhibit this week, which is set to run through Sunday, Dec. 7 at the Art Basel Miami Beach. According to the art fair’s Facebook, the installation is “Reinterpreting the legacy of pop portraiture, sculpture, and generative art through the lens of technology.”
Here’s more details on the unusual art installation.
What is the “Regular Animals” installation?
“Regular Animals” is an art installation by artist Beeple that features robotic dogs donning the faces and heads of famous figures. Some of the realistically recreated faces include those of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Andy Warhol, and Pablo Picasso.
The body of the dogs are robotic and tan, with four legs that drive their actions — walking, standing, laying down. Perhaps the strangest movement the dogs have been programmed to do is poop out photographs of their point of view within the installation, in the visual or artistic style of the person the dog represents.
In an Instagram post, artist Beeple shared that the dogs would poop out and distribute more than 1000 prints throughout the installation. The robots are “continuously taking pictures and ranking those pictures to find the most interesting ones,” and reimage the photos they take in their worldview using AI, he wrote.
“I am excited for this type of long form generative work as it combines dynamic sculptures, photography and AI into one output where the audience literally becomes part of the artwork just by viewing it,” Beeple wrote. “This speaks to the idea that we will increasingly be viewing the world through the lens of AI.”
Social media reacts to Musk, Bezos as robotic dogs
The art fair’s post about the installation has garnered more than 24,000 likes and nearly 2,000 comments, which span from praising the art to likening it to science fiction films of years past.
“Reminds of the Film ‘Mars Attacks’ where the Martians place people heads on animals,” one Facebook user said, while another compared the installation to the film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”
Others called the dogs “creepy” and “eerie yet strangely satisfying,” with one commenter adding that the installation “feels like the perfect metaphor for capitalism somehow.”
This story has been updated with new information.
