COSMO robots carries 20 custom QDD actuators, 16 facial motors and a 1990s‑style voice— all squeezed into a cartoon shell.

A video with the robot being demoed comes next. In it, [Quin] talks about what it was like to be invited into the White House.

In his new comic White House Robot Romance, Zdarsky and illustrator Rachael Stott follow the genre-mashing tale of two kitchen-bound droids whose protocol-breaking love affair is set against the ...