Dyna Launches Wheeled Semi-Humanoid for Full Workflows

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Dyna Robotics has introduced a wheeled semi-humanoid and AI system designed to perform complete workplace workflows rather than individual manipulation tasks, showing the robot operating through an hour-long commercial laundry sequence.

The company launched Dyna 2.1, pairing its Taku robot with the Dyna 2 world-action model. A whole-body controller and a vision-language system then decide the robot’s next move.

Taku has two seven-degree-of-freedom arms, an articulated upper body and four steerable wheels. Dyna chose wheels rather than legs because its targeted workflows require the machine to move among workstations but generally do not require humanlike walking, the company said.

In a video released with the system, Taku appears in a system video while performing tasks between washers, dryers, folding tables, and shelves. It loads and operates machines, retrieves towels, folds and sorts them and responds to errors such as unsuccessful grasps. The recording serves as a company demonstration without independent evaluation for commercial use.
Dyna says its underlying Dyna 2 model was trained using one million hours of human and robot data. A higher-level vision-language orchestrator monitors the workflow and selects the next action, while the whole-body controller converts target movements into joint and wheel commands at 100 Hz.

Dyna is moving away from success rates for individual tasks and instead optimizing mean time between interventions (MTBI), the time a robot operates before a human must step in. This becomes more challenging when many actions are chained into a workflow because failures accumulate even when individual tasks have high success rates.

Dyna's commercial work previously centered on less complex manipulation. In August, it said restaurant chain Din Tai Fung was rolling out its robots for napkin‑folding tasks and that deployments across hotels, logistics companies and data centers would scale its robot fleet to hundreds by mid‑2027. Such deployment figures remain company claims.
The company raised $120 million in 2025 from investors including CRV, First Round Capital, Nvidia's NVentures and Amazon's Industrial Innovation Fund. Bloomberg News reported the round valued Dyna at more than $600 million.

The launch release says Dyna 2.1 is being rolled out to hotels, laundromats and restaurants. Its more detailed technical report, however, describes bringing the new system to real‑world customer sites. Dyna has not named any customers operating Taku or given intervention data from a commercial deployment.