Jill Biden drives robots during visit to Illinois to push apprenticeships

Jill Biden took control of the wheel on Monday during a visit to Chicago, driving a robot via a hand controller around a classroom.

The first lady was in the Windy City to promote apprenticeships as part of 'National Apprenticeship Week.' Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona joined her for the trip.

The stop came as President Joe Biden is wrapping up a six-day trip to Asia, where he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and is attending the annual G20 summit.

The Bidens are also preparing to watch granddaughter Naomi Biden get married at the White House on Saturday to her fiance Peter Neal. 

Jill Biden drove a remote-controlled robot during a visit to a Rolling Meadows High School in Illinois, warning 'you know I haven't driven in a while'

On Saturday, President Joe Biden and Jill Biden will watch granddaughter Naomi Biden get married at the White House to fiance Peter Neal - above the four in June at the White House

But, ahead of the festivities, Jill Biden saw some hands on learning during her stop in Rolling Meadows, a northwest suburb of Chicago. 

She praised students at Rolling Meadows High School for their engineering work. 

She noted that 'not everyone needs a four-year degree. It’s about jobs.'

She also visited an engineering lab, where on of the students showed her how to work a remote-controlled robot that zipped around on the ground.

'You know I haven't driven in a while,' she warned as she took control.

As the robot moved around the room, the first lady jokingly asked: 'Anyone you want me to aim it at?'

She laughed as she crashed it into the side of the lab. The students turned it around so she could continue driving it. 

Jill Biden was only in Chicago for the day before heading back to Washington D.C. President Joe Biden arrives back in Washington D.C. on Thursday from his trip. 

Jill Biden arrives in Chicago for a day-visit to highlight apprenticeships

While Jill Biden was in Chicago, President Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the G20 leaders' summit in Bali

Naomi Biden, above with fiance Peter Neal in Los Angeles on a trip with the president, will be the first granddaughter of a president to marry at the White House

And, on Saturday, their eldest granddaughter will marry in what will be the 19th wedding in White House history.

Naomi Biden, 28, and Peter Neal, 25, will wed on the South Lawn. It will be the first White House wedding with a president's granddaughter as the bride. 

The couple were set up by a mutal friend about four years ago, according to the White House, and have been together ever since. Neal proposed in September of last year when the two were on a trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. 

Naomi is the daugher of Hunter Biden and his first wife Kathleen Buhle. The two divorced in 2017.

But, unlike Tiffany Trump's lavish nuptials at Mar-a-Lago this weekend, the Bidens have been mum about their granddaughter's big day. 

The Bidens will pay for the wedding, the White House has said, but otherwise haven't released any details about Saturday's event.

The former Tricia Nixon and her husband Edward Finch Cox, walk from the altar at the White House Rose Garden after their marriage on June 12, 1971

One of the most famous White House weddings was Tricia Nixon's to Ed Cox in June 1971. Then President Richard Nixon walked his daughter down the aisle in the Rose Garden before 400 guests.

The last wedding reception was in June 2008 to celebrate the wedding of Jenna Bush to Henry Hager after the two married a month earlier on President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas.