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<\/p>\nElon Musk has been turning heads in San Francisco – or at least his likeness.<\/p>\n
A flesh-colored android has been spotted roaming the city streets with an eerily realistic head resembling that of the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, drawing curious and confused crowds.<\/p>\n
The stunt in South Beach around Oracle Park on Wednesday, April 8, was part of a marketing push for digital artist Beeple’s upcoming exhibition, “INFINITE_LOOP.” It opens April 18 at the Palo Alto digital art center NODE.<\/p>\n
“NODE is a home for artists defining digital culture today. Beeple’s Regular Animals are a physical embodiment of that culture, and we’re proud to bring a piece of it here to Silicon Valley,” a NODE representative told the Chronicle. “Sending Elon into the streets is a way to bring that energy into public life ahead of the exhibition opening next week, and the reaction has been exactly what Beeple’s work does so well: it stops people in their tracks and gets them talking.”<\/p>\n
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“Regular Animals” also includes robot dog versions of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Beeple himself. (Courtesy of NODE)<\/p>\n
Beeple, a South Carolina-based artist whose real name is Mike Winkelmann, created the piece as part of his “Regular Animals” series. It also features Unitree Go2 robo-dog versions of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso and Winkelmann himself. Each head was created in collaboration with silicone mask maker Hyperflesh.<\/p>\n
“\u2018Regular Animals’ reinterprets the legacy of pop portraiture, sculpture, and generative art through the lens of technology. Each robotic humanoid is not a static object but a fluid digital canvas – its memories captured, reimagined, and preserved on the blockchain,” Node’s website<\/a> reads. “After three years – twenty-one ‘dog years’ – each robot will ‘die,’ with all memories from its life preserved forever on-chain.”<\/p>\n Beeple debuted “Regular Animals” at Art Basel in Miami late last year. (Courtesy of NODE)<\/p>\n Winkelmann debuted the work in December at Art Basel in Miami, but this week marks the first time one of the robots has been sent into the wild.<\/p>\n Reactions to the Musk robo-dog have been mixed. Some social media users have called it “terrifying” and “so wrong,” while others have found it hilarious.<\/p>\n Beeple has been making digital art since 2007, when he began creating and posting a new piece daily as part of a project titled “Everydays.” He notably sold a compilation of the first 5,000 days of the project for $69.3 million in 2021. It was the third-highest auction price achieved by a living artist at the time.<\/p>\n More Information<\/p>\n “INFINITE_LOOP”: Opening night reception from 7 p.m.-midnight April 18. 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Fridays; noon-8 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays. On view through June 30. Free. NODE, 180 University Ave., Palo Alto. 669-279-3477. nodefoundation.com<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Beeple](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1c0f849a3c14c6f0bc9b71d122d034f2.jpeg\"\/)
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