Today was the day that the iPhone 6s was launched in stores – and people were, as expected, lined up around blocks to catch the new phone before anyone else. iStores in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The iPhone generates two-thirds of Apple’s income revenue and, judging by the amount of pre-sales, the release of the new phone is set to break the first-weekend record that the iPhone 6 released last year held. That means around 12-13 million phones are set to be sold this weekend alone, compared to a mere 10 million last year.

Among the first to pick up the new iPhone 6s in a cold, rainy Sydney was a telepresence robot named Lucy, operated by marketing executive Lucy Kelly.

I obviously have my work and other things to attend to and can’t spend two days lining up so my boss at work suggested I take one of the robots down and use it to stand in my place.

An iPad picking up an iPhone. Who woulda thunk.

[source: businessinsider]