{"id":564346,"date":"2026-03-27T12:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564346\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:48:30","slug":"melania-trump-appears-alongside-an-ai-robot-at-white-house-event-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564346\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump appears alongside an AI robot at White House event &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heads turned at the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/white-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">White House<\/a> on Wednesday when U.S. First Lady <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/melania-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Melania Trump <\/a>walked the red carpet alongside a humanoid <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a> robot at an education event.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The robot shared the spotlight with Trump en route to the White House East Room for the final day of a summit\u00a0she had convened with counterparts from around the world through her Fostering the Future Together global initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: '\u2018Hollywood farce\u2019: Melania Trump\u2019s documentary panned before hitting theatres'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/260129-HEIDI.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:58<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Hollywood farce\u2019: Melania Trump\u2019s documentary panned before hitting theatres\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The group was in Washington, D.C., to discuss ways to empower children through education, innovation and technology, including AI.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and her robo-companion walked along the carpet before she stepped aside ahead of the East Room threshold. The robot then walked around a table populated by a group of esteemed guests, including Brigitte Macron of France, Fatima Maada Bio of Sierra Leone and Martha Nawrocka of Poland, and took up a position in the centre of the room.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tMelania Trump arrives, accompanied by a robot, to attend the Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit, with other spouses of heads of government, at the White House, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, in Washington.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The robot scanned the audience before addressing it.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, First Lady Melania Trump, for inviting me to the White House. It is an honour to be at Fostering the Future Together\u2019s global coalition inaugural meeting,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m Figure 03, a humanoid built for the United States of America,\u201d it continued. \u201cI am grateful to be part of this historic movement to empower children with technology and education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWelcome,\u201d it added before uttering similar greetings in 10 other languages. The robot then thanked everyone for coming and walked back down the red carpet.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Trending<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Trump thanked the robot for joining her, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s fair to state, you are my first American-made humanoid guest in the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The robot was made by California-based startup Figure AI, which introduced Figure 03 in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It is designed to help with household tasks such as laundry, cleaning, and washing dishes, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.figure.ai\/figure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the company\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock wrote on X that he was \u201cSo proud to see F.03 make history as the first humanoid robot in the White House,\u201d alongside a video from the moment his invention shared the spotlight with Trump.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So proud to see F.03 make history as the first humanoid robot in the White House \ud83e\udd16 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tXsxpEErsi\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tXsxpEErsi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adcock_brett\/status\/2036832028960923917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The startup is competing with others, including Boston Dynamics and Elon Musk\u2019s Tesla, as well as a number of companies in China, to build robots that look human-like and do some of the things people do.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from The Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heads turned at the White House on Wednesday when U.S. First Lady Melania Trump walked the red carpet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,64776,61,519,2845,1971],"class_list":["post-564346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-melania-trump","tag-technology","tag-trending","tag-u-s-news","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}