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