On Wednesday, Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock posted on X that one of his company’s F.03 concept robots made history as the “first humanoid robot in the White House.”
Proud to see F.03 make history as the first humanoid robot in the White House 🤖 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/tXsxpEErsi
— Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) March 25, 2026
As a ceremonial start for A a two-day summit As part of First Lady Melania Trump’s Fostering the Future Together initiative, which aims to promote technology in education, the White House appears to have chosen to demo a humanoid robot. The faceless robot enters, gives short speeches thanking the first lady and greeting foreign dignitaries in their own languages, then turns and walks away, shuddering, retreating into the distance in eerie silence. It’s hard not to remember him previous president In 2024, it looks like it will enter the Amazon Rainforest.
But, 90’s Al Gore Jokes aside, is this really the first time a humanoid robot has come to the White House? It just might be.
President Barack Obama met with disability advocate Alice Wong A telepresence robot in 2015. It would be difficult to call this robot – basically a Roomba with a long neck screen –humanoid.
One humanoid robot that could meet with tons of leaders and potentially visit the White House would be Honda’s Asimo. President Obama met and briefly practiced soccer with the robot Asimo, but he did so not at the White House, but at Japan’s Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo.
Similarly, George W. Bush was introduced to a grotesque humanoid robot named Albert HUBO at the 2005 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Busan, South Korea. You can’t see it in the video below, but Albert HUBO has one A fleshy, animatronic Albert Einstein head attached to a robot body. This event was not openly discussed in the White House either.
If anyone brought a humanoid robot to the White House before Melania Trump, it might have been Ronald Reagan. In 1987, during Reagan’s visit to Purdue University in Indiana A Tomy Omnibot 2000 with a Purdue hat was donatedand that robot has been on display at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, CA since 2016.
Tomy Omnibots were extremely expensive toys only for rich kids it is sometimes used as a gag in movies and television shows when the scenario calls for a futuristic robot to do something like pour a drink on someone. If Reagan ever got his Omnibot back into the White House, it would predate the F.03 photo there by almost 40 years. The problem is that Omnibots have wheels, not legs, which characterizes the device as humanoid. by some definitionsbut as “half humanoid” by others.
To resolve this uncertainty, Trump may officially welcome a robot to the Oval Office. Then he almost certainly will The first president to meet a humanoid robot in the White Houseis a cleaner and simpler stage.
It’s not hard to imagine he might be, since he has an almost disturbing amount of robots on his mind. horse announced a new press conference “Trump class“ warship last December he was asked whether the US would have enough “manpower” to carry out the project. In other words, could something like a shortage of skilled labor prevent the construction of this massive new ship? The president decided to answer the question by talking about robots it was like he was on the Lex Friedman Podcast.
Here is about half of Trump the answer:
“We’re going to have a very large workforce. We’re also going to have robots helping us. We’re going to have a lot of robots helping us because we need them and we’re going to go to the city. We’re building a lot between AI and car factories. So we’re going to need robots. But robots are going to help us.” There’s a huge workforce—you know, you can have robots, but you’re going to have to upgrade the robots employment. “We will use a lot of artificial things.”
If, say, a robot were “hired” to serve as a presidential staff aide in the White House, that would be a much more interesting milestone than having the first lady escorted to her desk at an education summit by a robot.
Meanwhile, Brett Adcock’s claim is convincing. This may indeed be the first humanoid robot in the White House. For a good measure, Gizmodo turned to the White House Historical Association (is a private non-profit organization) to get an expert opinion. We’ll update if we hear back.
