Forget long lines; this woman bought an iPhone via telepresence
It might have been the most unusual customer to ever appear at Apple's Palo Alto store, but not entirely out of place in the heart of Silicon Valley. On Friday morning, among the hundreds who queued for the iPhone 6S to go on sale, it was not human, not animal, but machine.
Brianna Lempesis in San Diego was inside the machine, a Beam telepresence robot that's capable of trundling around on wheels and videoconferencing with anyone it meets.
A telepresence robot trundles into Apple's Palo Alto store in the hopes of buying an iPhone 6S on launch day, Sept. 25, 2015.
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