A robot has become one of the first 'people' to own a new iPhone
It’s not unusual for people to pay others to wait the long hours, even days, in line for them, but one woman in Australia decided to give the task to her trusty robot ‘Lucy.’
Instead of braving the cold Sydney weather, ingenious Apple fan Lucy Kelly sent a droid, also named 'Lucy', to take her place in the queue.
Ms Kelly works with the media agency Atomic 212, which organised the publicity stunt, is believed to be the first person to use a robot to buy an iPhone.
iPad Lucy took her spot in line around 5am Thursday morning, according to Mashable Australia, and is holding strong behind three other ‘people’.
Meanwhile, real life Lucy continues to go about her business, going to work and staying out of the cold.
“We use [the robots] for everything, just to show new technology. It is a cool demonstration of what the future of technology will be,” Ms Kelly explained to Mashable. “We are obsessed with them.”
The company she works for reportedly has six of the telescopic rovers for employees to play with.
Fellow tech-lovers in line and regular passersby have been taking notice of the odd one out in the queue, even chatting and taking photos with Ms Kelly via video conference.
“I wanted to be one of the first people to have the iPhone 6S, but obviously because of work I can’t spend two days standing in line waiting for a mobile phone,” she told Mashable. “So my boss said ‘Just take the robot down.’”
The BBC reports the person currently standing first in line for the Sydney release, the first in the world based on time zones, has been waiting there for two weeks.
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