Robot escorts Melania Trump to White House tech function

You wouldn’t think that being able to walk down the East Wing of the White House without tripping would make headlines. But as Melania Trump walked down the red-carpeted aisle to a set of classical music, the First Lady was flanked not by the typical Secret Service agent you’d expect to see on the presidential grounds, but by a humanoid robot.

yes Robots are now in the White House.

The room was filled with other spouses of world leaders and tech executives gathered for the second day of the administration’s latest AI summit, which was part of “Promoting the future together” the initiative. But the details of the public-private networking operation paled in comparison to the event’s AI-powered special guest, a robot simply named “Figure 3.”

Figure 3 was created by American robotics company Figure, a former partner of Trump-supporting OpenAI (an arrangement between the AI ​​robotics startup and the AI ​​giant). ended last year) TIME: someone named the robot The best inventions of 2025and that’s probably the closest we’ve come to a a real-world robot servant. A Figure 3 can perform household chores such as folding towels, loading the dishwasher, and taking out the trash, whether it does so effectively is debatable.

Figure 3 spoke to White House guests in a young, vocally distorted female voice, similar to the rest of her countrymen working on robotics and artificial intelligence, and told the crowd it was an “honor” to keynote the event.

“I’m grateful to be a part of this historic movement to empower children with technology and education,” the Figure 3 told the room, shortly after it greeted the area in 11 languages, CNN reported.

The robot did not slip once. And for those who know, it’s huge.

Trump’s “Together Empowering the Future” program aims to harness “advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), to help children, educators and parents while protecting them from online threats.” This week’s summit was designed to connect world leaders (or, in many cases, their spouses) with private tech partners, in line with Trump’s “Be the Best” education initiative previously launched during President Trump’s first term.

In his short speech, Trump suggested that the future will be filled with artificial intelligence-powered robot teachers like the one in Figure 3. AI schools only sold out by Big Tech and the Silicon Valley elite, but has must still be supported by science education.

“The future of AI is personalized,” Trump said. “It will take the form of people. Very soon, artificial intelligence will move from our mobile phones to humanoids that make us useful.”