Overview
- The Musk-headed robot, seen Wednesday, April 8, moved through streets by Oracle Park as the series’ first live deployment.
- NODE confirmed it as a promotion for Beeple’s INFINITE_LOOP show that opens April 18 in Palo Alto.
- The piece belongs to Beeple’s Regular Animals, which mounts hyperreal silicone heads on Unitree Go2 robo-dogs in a collaboration with Hyperflesh.
- The lineup includes likenesses of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, and Beeple, and it drew reactions that ranged from delight to people calling it terrifying.
- Project materials state each robot will run for three years before a planned shutdown, with its captured memories preserved on a blockchain.