SHE DOESN’T CHECK HER PHONE. SHE DOESN’T LOSE THE THREAD.
SHE DOESN’T NEED A BREAK BETWEEN VISITORS.
A girl robot at a robotics expo, talking to a guy like it’s a normal shift.
No script card in her hand.
No “let me find someone who knows.”
No end of the day.
She answers. He asks again. The booth doesn’t go quiet.
About 7,000 humanoids sold worldwide in 2025 - IFR.
Counterpoint puts installations closer to 16,000.
Over 80% in China.
Bank of America expects 90,000 shipments this year and 1.2 million by 2030.
Reception used to be a person. Now it’s a face that doesn’t clock out.
And they’re already counting those faces in the thousands.
REA SHIPPED 12 VERSIONS IN 11 DAYS
8 OF THEM CAME WITH BREAKING CHANGES
oct 3 → a release, then a fix by evening
oct 5 → major 4, a fix 25 minutes later
oct 6 → Android APKs through JADX
oct 7 → major 5
oct 8 → major 6, EVM bytecode joins in
oct 9 → three releases in one day
oct 11 → phones over ADB
oct 14 → JavaScript, SQLite, WASM
look at oct 9
6.1 in the morning
6.2 in the afternoon
6.3 at night, UTC
three new majors in three days
4 on oct 5, 6 on oct 8
6.1 put Grok Build and Grok Bot
into the setup step
npx rea-agents@latest setup
the fine print is in the 6.2 notes
REA bumps the minor for breaking changes
6.2 is not a backward-compatibility promise
so pin the version you tested
the repo, 186 days old
291,836 stars
291,836 / 186 = 1,569 a day
old programs hold still while you read them
the tool reading them does not