First lady Melania Trump walked side by side with a sleek, black-and-white faceless figure Wednesday during an education summit she hosted at the White House. Despite its appearance, it wasn’t an otherworldly creature. It was a humanoid AI robot, known as Figure 03.
In videos from the summit, the robot can be seen mechanically strolling next to the first lady, even welcoming all in the room in several different languages and waving its hand.
“Figure 03, thank you for joining me,” the first lady said. “It’s fair to state you are my first American-made humanoid guest in the White House.”
Videos of the first lady walking beside the robot quickly went viral online and accumulated hundreds of thousands of views and comments, but little was said about who made the robot and what it’s used for.
The robot was created by the AI robotics company Figure, one of the top companies in
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