“Basha’s paintings are dominated by circles, which she creates with her feet, while her lines are created by a painting arm.”
– Critic
Hrag Vartanian, describing paintings by
Agnieszka Pilat’s robot dog Basha (a renamed instance of General Dynamics’
Spot). Wary of the gimmick, Vartanian writes “these machines … are ultimately not our friends, and humanizing them distracts from their use by authorities to police, control, or kill populations from a distance,”