Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 delivered one of its strangest and most talked-about moments when digital art star Beeple unveiled “Regular Animals,” an installation featuring lifelike robot dogs wearing hyper-realistic masks of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and even iconic artists like Andy Warhol. The quadruped machines, built in the style of Boston Dynamics robots, roamed the fair’s new Zero 10 digital zone, startling visitors as they snapped photos and dispensed NFT artwork in a performance that blended satire, discomfort, and technological spectacle.

The robots used onboard AI to analyze and stylize images of visitors—producing cubist Picasso-like portraits, Warhol-inspired pop art, and futurist Musk-themed composites before “excreting” the results as printed artwork paired with blockchain-verified NFTs. Each print arrived with a deliberately ridiculous authenticity certificate labeled “GMO-free organic dogshit,” a jab at both the art market’s obsession with documentation and the tech world’s sometimes comical aesthetic language.

Beeple, also known as Mike Winkelmann, created the installation as a commentary on the tech industry’s growing dominance over the creative world. The piece pushes viewers into the uncanny valley, pairing humanlike faces with mechanical bodies to evoke both fascination and unease. Beeple has long criticized how artificial intelligence and corporate tech power are reshaping creativity, and “Regular Animals” amplifies that critique through intentionally unsettling design.

Collectors responded instantly. Full robot editions—priced at $100,000 each—sold out during VIP preview days on December 3–4, reinforcing Beeple’s status as the most commercially successful digital artist since his record-breaking $69 million “Everydays” sale in 2021. The installation also turned the Zero 10 area into a major draw for the fair, illustrating how blockchain-verified art continues to gain traction among high-end buyers.

For many attendees, the roaming tech-headed dogs blurred the line between performance art and dystopian satire. With their shifting faces, AI-generated portraits, and NFT “droppings,” Beeple’s machines offered a provocative vision of how technology, celebrity, and creativity collide in the post-AI era. Whether seen as genius or creepy, the installation dominated conversation at Art Basel—exactly as Beeple intended.