No time to stand in line for a new iPhone 7? No problem.

想买iPhone 7却没时间排队？别担心。

One hundred New Zealanders had robots stand in line for them, and they’ve been there since Sept. 9.

100名新西兰人利用机器人来为他们排队，这些机器人自9月9日起就站在那里了。

The idea comes from the New Zealand-based Apple carrier Spark, which bought 100 Alpha 1 robots to save some of its customers from having to wait in line.

这个点子来自于新西兰苹果运营商Spark，他们买了100台阿尔法-1型机器人来为顾客排队，省下时间。

"Technology these days is so much more advanced than it used to be, so why shouldn’t our customers have their tech queue for them instead?" said Spark’s Clive Ormerod.

“这些日子以来，技术已经比以前有了非常大的进步，所以，为什么我们的消费者不能利用技术来替他们排队呢？”Spark工作人员克里夫•奥默罗德说。

Customers who have an Alpha 1 waiting in line for them are able to watch a live stream from their robot, and they’re even able to use their phones to control the bots, which are capable of doing push-ups, yoga, kung fu and dancing.

拥有用来排队的阿尔法-1型机器人的消费者可以通过直播看到他们的机器人，甚至可以利用手机来控制它们——机器人可以做俯卧撑、瑜伽、功夫和跳舞等等动作。

Once the new phone is purchased, the customers get to keep their little electronic surrogate.

一旦购买了新手机，消费者就可以留着这些电子小机器人。

Source: news.iyuba.com